I personally have stopped eating seafood.
SYLVIA EARLEThe Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically.
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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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For heaven’s sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see.
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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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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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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.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher – and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back.
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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.
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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the ‘National Geographic’ covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it’s like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about.
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