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When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.

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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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Afraid Not Ocean Seen Shark Should You
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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Century Creature Depleted End Gulf Large Many Million Ninty Other Overfishing Percent Prospered Shark Tuttle Whale Year
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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Adapt Fin Fish Force Kind Love Really Special Use
If 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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Earth Imagine Important IT Ocean Think Without
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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Base End Garbage Life Nuclear Reach Sewage Ship Studge Useful Waste
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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Effort Even Grant Great Housekeep Lace Life Mars Planet Recreate Set Sister Support Think Trouble
That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.
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Arctic Carbon Dioxide Excess History Human Melt Planet Precede Stunning Temperature Vulnerable
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
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Breath Connect Drink Drop Every Sea Take Water
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
Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.
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Ask Capable Care Do Hold Initiative Mirror Really Take Up What Yourself
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
They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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Body Down Dream Lateral Like Line One Sense Shape Whole
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
The concept of ‘peak oil’ has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. ‘Peak fish’ occurred around the end of the 1980s.
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Concept Concern Energy Future Heart Mind Peak Penetrate People
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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Anyone Better Can Leave Everyone Found Have Heroes Lot World
No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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Blue Green Life No Water

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