"Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in……" — Sylvia Earle
"Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together."
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Sylvia Earle
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93 Quotes by Sylvia Earle
Sylvia Earle has 93 quotes on this site.
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I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and,…
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Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad…
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Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.
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I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.
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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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I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.
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People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth's life support system,…
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I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our…
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There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
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Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath…
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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet-as if the…
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We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. As we…
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