We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
SYLVIA EARLEWith every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
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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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The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.
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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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My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
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There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.
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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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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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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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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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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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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
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We wouldn’t be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.
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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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