Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
SYLVIA EARLEAll through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
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People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
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All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
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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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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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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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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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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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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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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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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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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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I’m not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.
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Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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