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Earth As An Ecosystem Stands Out In The All Of The Universe. There's No Place That We Know About That Can Support Life As We Know It, Not Even Our Sister Planet, Mars, Where We Might Set Up Housekeeping Someday, But At Great Effort And Trouble We Have To Recreate The Things We Take For Granted Here.

Globally Sharks Have Been Killed For Their Fins, For Their Cartilage, For Their Livers, For Their Meat. But Mostly What Has Driven Some Species Of Sharks To Near Extinction - Including The Hammerhead Shark - Is The New Luxury Taste For Shark Fin Soup.

Photosynthetic Organisms In The Sea Yield Most Of The Oxygen In The Atmosphere, Take Up And Store Vast Amounts Of Carbon Dioxide, Shape Planetary Chemistry, And Hold The Planet Steady.

We Have The Power To Abstain From Destructive Behavior.

Great Attention Gets Paid To Rainforests Because Of The Diversity Of Life There. Diversity In The Oceans Is Even Greater.