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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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Sylvia Earle
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 30
Biologist
Botanist
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Marine Biologist
Oceanographer
Gibbstown
New Jersey
Sylvia Alice Earle
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'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
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Our job is to keep what is working intact and not destroy what we have got.
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Never before have we known what we know.
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Ironically the very energy, the very basis of how we know what we know, has been reliant on having an energy source [necessary] to build rockets to go to the moon and Mars, to support airplanes that fly, and satellites to give us our communication.
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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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By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
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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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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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The climate has been changing. Of course it [has]. Evidence throughout history, [which] we can assess, especially during human history, shows there have been ups and downs. But the last ten thousand years have been relatively stable compared to now.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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