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Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.

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Sylvia Earle
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 30
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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. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don't see sharks.
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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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Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the we. It's the social connections that are special to human beings.
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If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.
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When you think about the real cost of so-called cheap energy that has driven our prosperity to unprecedented levels, for some of us, to our horror, we've realized that this has the potential for burning brightly and then snuffing out.
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The most important part is to take on the challenge of protecting the ocean as if your life depends on it - because it does.
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Our job is to keep what is working intact and not destroy what we have got.
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We have an atmosphere that is roughly 21% oxygen. The rest of it is largely nitrogen. There's just enough carbon dioxide (CO2) to drive photosynthesis. That has been, throughout the history of our species, pretty stable. Until recently.
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Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.
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It is not too late to turn things around.
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Globally sharks have been killed for their fins, for their cartilage, for their livers, for their meat. But mostly what has driven some species of sharks to near extinction - including the hammerhead shark - is the new luxury taste for shark fin soup.
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Childcare is a huge issue for young women whose work may require them to leave their families for weeks at a time.
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Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.
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We want to think of ourselves as truly special creatures that are unique in the universe and, well, we are. And we have that capacity to wonder, to question, and to see ourselves in the context of all of life that has preceded the present time, and all that will go off far into the future, one way or another.
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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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We have the capacity to alter the nature of nature. No, we don't have just the capacity - we are altering the nature of nature, the natural systems that cause the planet to function in our favor.
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Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.
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Look at a child and realize that their future is in your hands. It's not just those who will be here fifty years from now. The decisions we make in the next ten years will shape the next 10,000 years.
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Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
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Ignorance is the biggest problem of all for the ocean - and for many other things as well.
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