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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.
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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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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Never again will we have this good a chance as we now have to find an enduring place for ourselves within the natural systems that keep us alive. It's a sweet spot in history. That's why this is such a critical time.
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We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.
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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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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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Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.
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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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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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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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Burning fossil fuels has given us the gift of seeing ourselves in new ways. But that very gift now enables us to see we've got to change our ways.
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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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If Darwin could get into a submarine and see what I've seen, thousand of feet beneath the ocean, I am just confident that he would be inspired to sit down and start writing all over again.
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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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I suggest to everyone: Look in the mirror. Ask yourself: Who are you? What are your talents? Use them, and do what you love.
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I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.
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Fortunately, we know more about the problems that we have than in all preceding history. We know now the consequences of the things that we put into the air, into the water - of the way we treat life on Earth.
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We are blessed with a place that is open to the universe and, despite this, supports this very thin envelope of air we call atmosphere, which holds just the right amount of oxygen for us to breathe.
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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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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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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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