"If you're overfishing at the top of the……" — Carl Safina
"If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system."
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25 Quotes by Carl Safina
Carl Safina has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in…
- We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.
- The ocean is not just blank blue space but rather the habitat for amazing wildlife, and we have to take…
- For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision…
- Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time.…
- [About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up.…
- If you look right, you can see the whole world from wherever you happen to be.
- A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can…
- Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine…
- The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for…
- Whether on'e special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from…
- Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.
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