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...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...
...more about the environment and its champions, visit our Heroes for the Planet website at time.com/heroes
...seas. Having devastated the cod population, Atlantic fishing boats are exhausting the haddock, herring and flounder. "How do you make people see that we are strip-mining the oceans?" Wheeler, once a commercial fisherman himself, asks, his voice edged with puzzlement. "I find myself depressed. Our relationship with the planet is terribly flawed...
...star. Later, it was solemn enough for "The Greatest Story Ever Told," and brightly sinister enough for villainy in 1968's "Five Card Stud." But McDowall, who died of cancer on Saturday at age 70, knew full well what role he'd finally be remembered for: Dr. Cornelius in "Planet of the Apes." And his face, of course, had nothing to do with...