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The World Is Blue

How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One

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The World Is Blue

Written by: Sylvia A. Earle, Bill McKibben - foreword
Narrated by: Sheree Wichard
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A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.

In recent decades, we've learned more about the ocean than in all previous human history combined. But, even as our knowledge has exploded, so too has our power to upset the delicate balance of this complex organism. Modern overexploitation has driven many species to the verge of extinction. Since the mid-20th century about half our coral reefs have died or suffered sharp decline; hundreds of oxygen-deprived "dead zones" blight our coastal waters; and toxic pollutants afflict every level of the food chain.

Fortunately, there is reason for hope, but what we do-or fail to do-in the next 10 years may well resonate for the next 10,000. The ultimate goal, Earle argues passionately and persuasively, is to find responsible, renewable strategies that safeguard the natural systems that sustain us. The first step is to understand and act upon the wise message of this accessible, insightful, and compelling book.

©2009 Sylvia A. Earle (P)2021 Tantor
Earth Sciences Environment Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science
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I am a vegetarian and have been one. most of the info in this book i never knew. am a voracious reader and read up or watch on stuff I would never interact with earlier.
this book is a must read for all. it's a massive work on seas and sea life and it's effect on global warming.
I still have 2 hours to listen.
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