When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
SYLVIA EARLEHealth to the ocean means health for us.
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They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
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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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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it’s like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about.
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You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive – and thrive. ‘Harsh’ to us is ‘home’ for them.
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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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Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
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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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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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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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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.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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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