All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
SYLVIA EARLEAs if the ocean somehow doesn’t matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.
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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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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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If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
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There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
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Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
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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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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They’re very efficient.
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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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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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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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As if the ocean somehow doesn’t matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.
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