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There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.
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We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind.
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It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.
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I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.
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Social change comes through people.
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Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.
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I'm not really a fugitive.
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I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.
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I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.
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We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for.
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The oceans are the last free place on the planet.
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I don't think you really have to retire from what you do.
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The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.
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The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.
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I don't care if I put people off.
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I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one.
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Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
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I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.
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Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities.
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The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
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In Africa, the rangers shoot poachers.
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My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.
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I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11 and found there were no more beavers. I found that trappers had taken them all, so I became quite angry, and that winter I began to walk the trap lines and free animals from the traps and destroy the traps.
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In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.
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