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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in…
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…
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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
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In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce…
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder…
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Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants…
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations…
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One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of…
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When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming…
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The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
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It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with…
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Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or…
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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.…
— Lester R. Brown
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In terms of protecting ourselves, the main issues are around how do we protect our borders [from illegal migrants and livestock and…
— Helen Clark
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Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and…
— Daniel Pauly
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Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.
— Sigmar Gabriel
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The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management.
— Tom Felton
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The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places…
— Bjorn Lomborg
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Of all the ships that have been devoted to biological explorations of the sea, none has surpassed the endeavors conducted on board…
— Paul Bartsch
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To the naked eye, our oceans are beautiful. But scientists tell us that all of the world's fisheries will collapse by 2048,…
— Ted Danson
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A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.
— John M. McHugh
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The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But…
— Jared Diamond
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In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming…
— Daniel Pauly
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