Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
SYLVIA EARLEThat, 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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On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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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 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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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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The 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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When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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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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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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Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica.
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We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
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I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.
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