Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
SYLVIA EARLEIce ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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There’s no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.
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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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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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Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world.
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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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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.
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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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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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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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It’s a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
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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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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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