I’m friends with James Cameron. We’ve spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.
SYLVIA EARLEIn terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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It’s a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
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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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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it.
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Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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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?
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