The life of Sylvia Earle

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She spent 7,000 hours underwater, led nearly 700 scientific expeditions and spent her life fighting to defend the ocean.   Here is the story of famed marine biologist Sylvia Earle.

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00:00We didn't have anything to do with causing the extinction of dinosaurs,

00:04but we could be the agents that cause our own extinction as well as much of the rest of life on Earth.

02:00This year, in July, when the International Whaling Commission met,

02:21many nations supported a moratorium on commercial whaling.

02:26South Africa was not one of the nations that did support this moratorium.

02:30It has been recommended by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources,

02:36an organization that represents more than a hundred nations.

02:40I thought it was rather unfortunate, both for the whales and for South Africa.

02:56We have to make a choice with aquaculture.

03:21What are we trying to do?

03:23Is our goal to feed a large number of people, or is our goal to create or to serve a luxury market?

03:54What are we trying to do?

03:56Is our goal to feed a large number of people, or is our goal to create or to serve a luxury market?

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