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Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.
Sylvia Earle
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Sylvia Earle
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 30
Biologist
Botanist
Explorer
Marine Biologist
Oceanographer
Gibbstown
New Jersey
Sylvia Alice Earle
S.A.Earle
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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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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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Our job is to keep what is working intact and not destroy what we have got.
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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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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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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.
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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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Knowledge is the key to making a difference.
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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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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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This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.
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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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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.
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Ignorance is the biggest problem of all for the ocean - and for many other things as well.
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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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Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.
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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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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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There are a lot of smart creatures out there. Dolphins, elephants, and whales are smart. And there are some really smart birds. I know some really intelligent fish. But they cannot know what humans know and are incapable of inflicting as much damage.
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