We did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.
SYLVIA EARLEWhen I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
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Protecting vital sources of renewal – unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens – will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.
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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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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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If you think the ocean isn’t important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
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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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Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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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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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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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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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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I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
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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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