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Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.

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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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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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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the ‘National Geographic’ covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.
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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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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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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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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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No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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Atmosphere Earth Generated Live Matter Most No Oxygen Sea
Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
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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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If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.
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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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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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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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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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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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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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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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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 concept of ‘peak oil’ has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. ‘Peak fish’ occurred around the end of the 1980s.
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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Always Compatible Men Said Top Underwater Women
I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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Did Irresistible Lure Unknown
What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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Against Fish Once Use Used War Weapon

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