"Sylvia Earle's generation — they were explorers...They’re like, what is even down there? How do we understand this? And then: Oh [bleep], this is in trouble. And they all became conservationists, right? We saw that same professional transformation with Jacques Cousteau."
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Interview with On Being (2022)
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau
1910 – 1997
französischer Meeresforscher
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