We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
SYLVIA EARLEAnything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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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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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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There’s no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.
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No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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.
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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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Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
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