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“It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed toward oblivion. The losses are occurring all over: in the South Pacific and in the North Atlantic, in the Arctic and the Sahel, in lakes and on islands, on mountaintops and in valleys.”

Water Loss Building Bird Thirds South Islands Lakes Valleys Rays Quarters Oblivion Fifth Sharks Pacific Arctic Mammals Reefs Reptiles Fresh Water Mollusks

Book:The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Source: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

“I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.”

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Author:Jim Ramstad

“Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.”

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Author:Bob Ney

“This fight against drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a fight about our principles. Its about standing up for our environment, our families and our future, and I wont give up this fight.”

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Author:John F. Kerry

“If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish on the periphery, a voice crying in the wilderness, condemned to live and die on a cold arctic shore.”

Ifs Dies Games Sports Voice Cry Cold Chess Wilderness Shore Arctic Periphery Languish Popular Sports

Author:Michael Basman

“In Alaska, the beaches are slumping so much, people are having to move houses. In Tuktoyaktuk, the land is starting to go under water. The glaciers are melting and the permafrost is melting. There are new species of birds and fish and insects showing up. The Arctic is a barometer for the health of the world. If you want to know how healthy the world is, come to the Arctic and feel its pulse.”

People Ifs Knows World Want Feels Moving House Water Know How Land Healthy Bird Species Starting Fishes Beach Insects Pulse Melting Alaska Showing Up Arctic Glaciers Barometer

Author:Sheila Watt-Cloutier

“The Arctic is the planet's air conditioner and it's starting to break down.”

Break Air Planets Starting Breaking Down Arctic Air Conditioner

Author:Eban Goodstein

“Tundra is a huge, forever frozen wetland covering the entire coast of the Arctic Ocean.”

Forever Huge Ocean Coast Frozen Covering Arctic Wetlands

Author:Palmer Cox

“What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they'll think they can do anything to the environment - anything at all. Drilling in Yosemite? In the Grand Canyon? What's next?”

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Author:Barbara Boxer

“The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.”

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Author:James Lovelock

“A good salesman, as the old (and politically incorrect) saying goes, can sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo. It's a cliché, but there's some truth to it: Inuit who live above the Arctic Circle use insulated refrigerators to keep their food from freezing in subzero temperatures”

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Book:The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

Source: The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

“For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh' to us is 'home' for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.”

Humans Littles Home Conditions Bears Increase Snow Ice Realms Thrive Harsh Temperature Arctic Polar Bears Ice And Snow

Author:Sylvia Earle

“By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.”

Humans Ends Century Climate Climate Change Population Pairs Surviving Breeding Eugenics Arctic Enviromental Human Population Enviroment

Author:James Lovelock

“The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.”

Humans Turns Influence Planets Ocean Impact Rate Currents Vulnerable Atmosphere Realms Excess Carbon Human History Temperature Melting Stunning Arctic Icy Carbon Dioxide Ocean Currents

Author:Sylvia Earle

“The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It's an ocean surrounded by land, basically.”

Water Land Ocean Southern Continents Arctic North Pole

Author:Sylvia Earle

“The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It's not just a cost to the people who live there. It's a cost to all people everywhere.”

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Author:Sylvia Earle

“Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.”

Remember Found Community Huge Sake Wide Ice Village Covered Passages Agriculture Scotland Farming Grapes Arctic Glaciers Iceland

Author:Don Young

“Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.”

War Fire Sky Huge Hair Satan Shakes Length Indignation Arctic Comets Pestilence

Book:The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan

Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan

“Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.”

People Said Age Remember Loses Millions Courage Politician Solve Dust Ice Coal Arctic Chatter Ice Age

Author:Don Young

“Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from the Arctic to the Antarctic, it would present a scene the most rugged, grand, and imposing. The very ribs of the solid earth, with the foundations of the sea, would be brought to light, and we should have presented to us at one view the empty cradle of the ocean.”

Source: Explanations and sailing directions to accompany the Wind and current charts: approved by Captain D. N. Ingraham, chief of the Bureau of ordnance and hydrography, and pub. by authority of Hon. Isaac Toucey, secretary of the Navy

“We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.”

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Author:Lewis Gordon

“Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic.”

Want Firsts Happens Achieve Winter Factors Pushing Crossings Rivalry Arctic Norwegians

Author:Ranulph Fiennes

“Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.”

Action Mines Climate Climate Change Evident Coal Arctic Canaries Call To Action

Author:Susan Collins

“In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.”

Three Average Faster Three Times Temperature Arctic Freaky

Author:Jeff Goodell

“Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.”

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Author:Jeff Goodell