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When you think about the real cost of so-called cheap energy that has driven our prosperity to unprecedented levels, for some of us, to our horror, we've realized that this has the potential for burning brightly and then snuffing out.
Sylvia Earle / Explorer
Energy

Real

Thinking
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That attitude of arrogance, that attitude of "It's all about me. It's all about what I can get out of life now" - well, I'm personally driven by wanting to get out of my life the best I can achieve as a gift for those who come after me.
Sylvia Earle / Explorer
Attitude

Achieve

Arrogance
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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.
Sylvia Earle / Explorer
Communicate

Importance

Informing

Letters

Missing

Numbers

What Matters

Youngsters

Connection

Fail

Matters
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Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon - it's a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.
Sylvia Earle / Explorer
Ocean

Carbon

Food Chain

Function

Oxygen

Water

Fish

Chain

Leads

Planet

Ultimately

Yields
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We have an atmosphere that is roughly 21% oxygen. The rest of it is largely nitrogen. There's just enough carbon dioxide (CO2) to drive photosynthesis. That has been, throughout the history of our species, pretty stable. Until recently.
Sylvia Earle / Explorer
Atmosphere

Nitrogen

Oxygen
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We still have the illusion that the ocean will recover. That even if we do have to lose sharks, people don't understand why this matters. The evidence is in front of us, and we fail to take it in and say, "Now I get it. Now I understand."
Sylvia Earle / Explorer
Ocean

People

Sharks
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