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That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.

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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.
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Bear Condition Country Harsh Harshly Human Inhospitable People Place Polar Precise Require Survive Thrive
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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Drive Feel Fish High Luxury Mainly Market Million Much Sea Starve
Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.
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Ability Around Creature Deep Dive Fly Globe High Human Instant Message Onky Sea Sly
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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Hour I Joy Kow People Sea Spend Take Thousand Under What Wish
Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
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Agriculture Culture Downstream Drain Forty Gold Golf Lawn Mississippi Percent State Unit
To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It’s not just a cost to the people who live there. It’s a cost to all people everywhere.
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Arctic Cost Diameter Everywhere Lose Mean People System Vital Work
Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon – it’s a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.
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Back Carbon Chain Every Fertilize Fish Food Generate Grap Lead Oxygen Plankton Ultimately Water Way
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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Behaviour Harm Have Just Modify Ocean Place Policy Power Put Way
America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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Burd Known Lady Mother Neighborhood
Is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.
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Accelerate Consequence Greatly Impact Occur Oil Overshadowm Spill Put Slow Together Trend Warning
You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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Afraid Not Ocean Seen Shark Should You
Health to the ocean means health for us.
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For Health Ocean Us
Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
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Away Even Ice Increase Literally Little Live Make Melt Possible Show Take Temperature
Any astronaut can tell you you’ve got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.
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Anyone Astronaut Can Everyone Everything Hero Learn Life Support System
There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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Mindset Need Planet Take Care Terrestrial Terrible

That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.

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That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.

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