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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. "
Sylvia Earle
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" The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. 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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Place
" 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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" Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it. "
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Power
" I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining. "
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Human
I Am
Ocean
" 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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Ocean
Sea
Future
" Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. 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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Ocean
Support
Sea
" 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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Time
Friends
Heart
" What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish. "
Sylvia Earle
Against
Fish
Now
" I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too. "
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Kids
Music
Sound
" 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. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn't frightening, it was more exhilarating. "
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Wave
Three
Shore
" Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater. "
Sylvia Earle
Sea
Land
Life
" 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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Time
Structure
Ocean
" Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it. "
Sylvia Earle
Support
Care
Learn
" I am not in any hurry to grow up. "
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Grow Up
Hurry
I Am
" I personally have stopped eating seafood. "
Sylvia Earle
Eating
Stopped
Seafood
" Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat. "
Sylvia Earle
Meat
Only
Plants
" 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 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. "
Sylvia Earle
Attitude
Sea
Ocean
" I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back. "
Sylvia Earle
End
Boat
Care
" When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people. "
Sylvia Earle
People
Fish
Technology
" Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills. "
Sylvia Earle
Costs
Ocean
Value
" Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected. "
Sylvia Earle
Places
More
Miles
" 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. Health to the ocean means health for us. "
Sylvia Earle
Health
Doing
Help
" We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return. "
Sylvia Earle
Far
Wildlife
Ocean
" My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico. "
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Parents
Gulf
Backyard
" In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from. "
Sylvia Earle
Protein
Think
Personal
" I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know. "
Sylvia Earle
Know
Joy
People
" Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted. "
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Ice
Coral
Gone
" I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter. "
Sylvia Earle
Jump
Fish
Beautiful
" 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. "
Sylvia Earle
Life
Job
Place
" Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. 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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Life
Effort
Support