I personally have stopped eating seafood.
SYLVIA EARLEIs a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.
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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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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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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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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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Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
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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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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
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As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
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Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
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It’s a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
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Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you’re lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you’re in a healthy ocean.
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