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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.
Sylvia Earle
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Sylvia Earle
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 30
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Marine Biologist
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New Jersey
Sylvia Alice Earle
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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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The ocean is dying, and we have no place to escape to if this experiment doesn't go in our favor.
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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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In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history.
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I am driven by what I know that the world I love is in trouble.
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes - I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over.
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Even our rules and regulations, our laws, our policies, favor the destructive nature of taking too much from the ocean and using techniques that are horribly destructive. We know they don't work. We know it's not sustainable.
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Use your power to do whatever it takes to secure for humankind an enduring place on this little blue speck in the universe - our only hope.
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Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.
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The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.
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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
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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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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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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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Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.
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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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I've spent thousands of hours under water. And even in the deepest dive I have ever made, 2.5 miles (about 4 kilometers) down, I saw trash and other tangible evidence of our presence.
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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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Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
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Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
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