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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.

Sylvia Earle

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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Against Fish Once Use Used War Weapon
A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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Board City Feet Forest Live Look Lumberman Many See Tumbler Will
There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
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Around Belt Coral Few Good Harf Jeweled Middle Oyster Planet Prety Shape Still Time Turn
Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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Acid Acidification Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide Excess Increase Ocean Turn
People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
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All Dead Destructive Fish More Not One People Still Take Technique Understand Valuable
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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Accelerate Consequence Greatly Impact Occur Oil Overshadowm Spill Put Slow Together Trend Warning
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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Area Century Crush Displace Drilled Escape Gas Gulf Large Middle Mile More Pipeline Scrap Since
It’s mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It’s not feeding the starving millions. It’s feeding a luxury market.
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Drive Feel Fish High Luxury Mainly Market Million Much Sea Starve
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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Basically Critical Important Land North Northern Ocean Owing Pole Surrounded Water
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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Ask Capable Care Do Hold Initiative Mirror Really Take Up What Yourself
I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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Always Compatible Men Said Top Underwater Women
Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.
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Ability Around Creature Deep Dive Fly Globe High Human Instant Message Onky Sea Sly
When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the ‘National Geographic’ covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.
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Fish Hundred might Million People Reason Scientific Technology Ten Treatise Underwater Write
I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back.
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Back Boat Buddy Care Come Confident Dive End Had Left Panic Take Where
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty.
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Advocate Conservation Driver Ocean Scuba Some Spent Strongest Surface Time
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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Bark Look Moss Redwood See

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