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I’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.

Sylvia Earle

Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.
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Behaviour Harm Have Just Modify Ocean Place Policy Power Put Way
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
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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Backyard Country Gulf Move My Parent Twelve
To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It’s not just a cost to the people who live there. It’s a cost to all people everywhere.
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Arctic Cost Diameter Everywhere Lose Mean People System Vital Work
It’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?
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Akin Builddoze Butterfly Catch Destry Ecosystem Land Ocean Pound Protein Sale Using Whole
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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Back Dump Dumper Last Moxious One Repair Somebody Something
There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.
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Done Down Ground Job Oil Once Remove Rig Right See Some These Who Would
Health to the ocean means health for us.
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For Health Ocean Us
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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Care Dependent Do Live Need Ocean Respect Take Them They
Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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Acid Acidification Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide Excess Increase Ocean Turn
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty.
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Advocate Conservation Driver Ocean Scuba Some Spent Strongest Surface Time
Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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Age Come Coral Have Ice Persist Reef
Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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Always Anything Come Creature Doorstep Found Injured Somebody Unusual
I’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.
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Biologist Diver Explore Friend Heart Occur People Person Spent Together Year
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
I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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Always Compatible Men Said Top Underwater Women

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