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Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.

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I am not in any hurry to grow up.

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I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

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I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'

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For heaven's sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see. You don't stand around arguing about who's responsible, or who's going to pay.

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It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.

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If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.

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All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.

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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

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Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: August 30th, 1935

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