Health to the ocean means health for us.
SYLVIA EARLEIf 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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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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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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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
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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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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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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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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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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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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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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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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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