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Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die. And if the oceans die, then civilization collapses and we all die

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Paul Watson
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: December 2
Activist
Environmentalist
Naval Officer
Sailor
City of Toronto
Paul Franklin Watson
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