People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
SYLVIA EARLEWe have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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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.
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Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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I love music of all kinds, but there’s no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
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It’s mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It’s not feeding the starving millions. It’s feeding a luxury market.
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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.
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Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
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If you think the ocean isn’t important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
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And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
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No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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