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I’ve had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.
SYLVIA EARLE

Hour I Joy Kow People Sea Spend Take Thousand Under What Wish
If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.
SYLVIA EARLE

Able Back Billio Earth Magical Old Ourselves Survive Transport Year Young
Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.
SYLVIA EARLE

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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
SYLVIA EARLE

Alter Become Effective Fright Nature
It’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?
SYLVIA EARLE

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For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive – and thrive. ‘Harsh’ to us is ‘home’ for them.
SYLVIA EARLE

Bear Condition Country Harsh Harshly Human Inhospitable People Place Polar Precise Require Survive Thrive
Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.
SYLVIA EARLE

Amount Atmosphere Carbon Chemistry Dioxide Most Organism Oxygen Photosynthesis Planetary See Shape Steady Store Take Vast Yield
We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it’s in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.
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Area Believe Change Disruption Elsewhere Global Make Mandates Matter System Taken Vulnerable Warming World
Protecting vital sources of renewal – unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens – will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.
SYLVIA EARLE

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Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
SYLVIA EARLE

Century During Has Been History Human Learn Middle More Ocean Preceding Since Twenty
Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world.
SYLVIA EARLE

Cause Crash Critical Global Health Increase Look Point Reef Some Expert Temperature Tip Warming
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
SYLVIA EARLE

Backyard Country Gulf Move My Parent Twelve
The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.
SYLVIA EARLE

Arctic Been Current During Historical History Human Icy Impact Largely Ocean Place Priced Real
We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
SYLVIA EARLE

Aggressive Appreciate Been Extracting Far Limit Ocean Point Return Too Wildlife
If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
SYLVIA EARLE

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As if the ocean somehow doesn’t matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.
SYLVIA EARLE

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