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Humans have always wondered the big questions, Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going? It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

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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
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Never before have we known what we know.
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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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It is not too late to turn things around.
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Fish from all over the world, from deep in the sea, wind up in countries from Germany to Japan. That is just crazy.
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Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.
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It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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We are not only warming the ocean and the planet as a whole, but we are also acidifying the ocean and changing its chemistry.
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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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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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