Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
SYLVIA EARLEOur 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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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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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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You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
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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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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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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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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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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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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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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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