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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.
Sylvia Earle
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Sylvia Earle
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 30
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Sylvia Alice Earle
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This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.
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Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
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Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.
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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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There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
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It has taken these many hundreds of millions of years to fine-tune the Earth to a point where it is suitable for the likes of us.
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The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.
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The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now, we are driving not just the warming trend, not just the sea level rise that is a consequence of the warming trend that is melting polar ice and alpine ice, but also [ocean acidification].
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When you are a child you learn your alphabet, your numbers, but increasingly, we must learn from the earliest stages that the highest priority has to be to maintain the world as a safe place for humankind.
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Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.
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The Earth is a unique system in the universe, the only planet we know of that's hospitable for humankind.
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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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The observations that have developed over the years have given us perspective about where we fit in. We are newcomers, really recent arrivals on a planet that is four and a half billion years old.
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We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us.
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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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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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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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Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.
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There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes.
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We've got to alter our fossil fuel dependence and go to other energy sources.
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