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As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything.
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Anything Attitude Away Big Child Could Dispose Held Ocean Place Resilient Sea Ultimate Use Widely
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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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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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
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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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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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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All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
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All Bad Been Class Colege Deal Frequently Girl Only Science Such Through
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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Animal Divison Freshwater Half Land Life Major Make Nearly Occur Only Sea
To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It’s not just a cost to the people who live there. It’s a cost to all people everywhere.
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Arctic Cost Diameter Everywhere Lose Mean People System Vital Work
I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
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Could Endless Exterminate Fish Have Learn No Otherwise Resilient Species Way
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
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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Big Blue Country Fish Krill Percent Remain Sam Some Still Thing Whale
Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
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Creaturem Industrial Destroy Ecosystem Extraction Krill Nothing Other Prepare Scala Sea Shark Squid
Health to the ocean means health for us.
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For Health Ocean Us
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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Big Care Harm Itself Matter Nothing Ocean Possible Somehow Vast
Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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Always Anything Come Creature Doorstep Found Injured Somebody Unusual
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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Cause Crash Critical Global Health Increase Look Point Reef Some Expert Temperature Tip Warming
No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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Atmosphere Earth Generated Live Matter Most No Oxygen Sea
I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind.
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Do Explore Health Help Hope Humankind Ocean Protect Restore Secure Wild
I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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Did Irresistible Lure Unknown
Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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Country Freedom Gain Goal Government Great Individual Interface Most Personal Pursue Undue
I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.
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I love music of all kinds, but there’s no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
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All Grandchildren Greater Kid Kind Laugh Love Music Sound
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
Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
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Almost Always Anything Artificial Collect Form Jetty Life Like Natural Ocean Over Shipwreck Structure Time

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