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The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it.

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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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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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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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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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We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it’s in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.
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I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
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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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I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They’re very efficient.
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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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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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We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.
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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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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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