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Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.

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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
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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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Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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Our 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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By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
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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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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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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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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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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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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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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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We wouldn’t be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.
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