Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
SYLVIA EARLEI’m friends with James Cameron. We’ve spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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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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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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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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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.
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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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It’s mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It’s not feeding the starving millions. It’s feeding a luxury market.
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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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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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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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If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
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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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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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