In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.
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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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We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it’s in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.
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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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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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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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I’ve had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.
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Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
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