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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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Sylvia Earle
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 30
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Gibbstown
New Jersey
Sylvia Alice Earle
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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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I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.
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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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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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Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.
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When you are a child you learn your alphabet, your numbers, but increasingly, we must learn from the earliest stages that the highest priority has to be to maintain the world as a safe place for humankind.
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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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The living ocean drives planetary chemistry, governs climate and weather, and otherwise provides the cornerstone of the life-support system for all creatures on our planet, from deep-sea starfish to desert sagebrush. That's why the ocean matters. 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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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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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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We are taking way more out of the ocean than the ocean can replenish.
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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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The very energy sources that have gotten us to where we are now are also, if we continue doing what we're doing, a shortcut to the end of all that we hold near and dear.
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No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.
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All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.
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Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.
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The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.
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The observations that have developed over the years have given us perspective about where we fit in. We are newcomers, really recent arrivals on a planet that is four and a half billion years old.
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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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In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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