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We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us.
Sylvia Earle
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Sylvia Earle
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 30
Biologist
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Marine Biologist
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Gibbstown
New Jersey
Sylvia Alice Earle
S.A.Earle
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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.
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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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There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other wildlife in the sea before it's too late.
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Eating wildlife is probably not the smartest thing that we can do in terms of maintaining the integrity of natural systems.
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There is not a well-funded campaign among scientists to say, Look, here's the evidence. You can read it yourself. Here are the facts. We're not making this up.
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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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Our job is to keep what is working intact and not destroy what we have got.
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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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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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In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history.
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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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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.
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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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There are now more than 4,000 places in the sea around the world that have some kind of protection. The bad news: You have to look hard to find them. What you find instead is destructive fishing, mining, gas and oil exploration.
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Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is 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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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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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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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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Ignorance is the biggest problem of all for the ocean - and for many other things as well.
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