Word: planeteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Online will have a website, time.com/heroes and arrange online chats with our heroes. On Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. E.T., Greenpeace activist Niaz Dorry will take questions at chat.yahoo.com/time Dorry once helped plan a protest against TIME (see Skow's story), but in picking Heroes for the Planet, we didn't hold that against...
...unrivaled hero of the oceans. Former naval officer, explorer, filmmaker, environmentalist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, a.k.a. "Captain Planet," almost single-handedly unlocked the door to the world beneath the waves. The Frenchman's co-invention of the Aqua-Lung freed humanity to wander underwater, and his more than 150 books, films and TV shows enabled millions of people to accompany him on voyages of discovery. But since he died last year at 87, the task of carrying on Cousteau's mission has fallen to rival successors whose infighting threatens to cloud his vision...
...same time, it defines and characterizes the earth--one flowing body of water, with different names and climates, and covering almost 75% of the planet. The oceans encompass 97% by volume of all the earth's living space. Nearly half the world's population lives within 60 miles of the sea. The thing is in our forgotten history and our chromosomes, which may explain why people stare at the ocean with such sweet, vacant yearnings. Stare long enough, and you can embrace the whole world with your eyes. Even then, you are taking in only the surface...
...blithely squandering our inheritance by way of pollution and overfishing. What is more: there is so much left to see in the oceans. The few existing manned submersibles can reach only half their depth. The benthic, or bottom-dwelling, plants and animals represent the least-known ecosystem on the planet. Earle feels personal responsibility for the ocean's future and safety. She takes fish personally. She once bumped into "a grouper with an attitude...
...away the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance," she says. "But we can do something about that." After recent explorations of the galaxies, she concluded that all we really know is that the earth is unique. "The future is here," she says, "this aquatic planet blessed with an ocean...