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"It is often said that our oceans are less understood than the surface of the moon. Alanna Mitchell's informative and deeply moving book gives a wonderful portrait of a global marine ecosystem that desperately needs both greater popular understanding and international protection against looming catastrophe." --Mark Lynas, Environmentalist and author of 'Six Degrees'
"Alanna Mitchell sails, snorkels and dog-paddles the oceans with swashbuckling scientists who are growing very scared at the crisis in the deeps, and what it means for us land-lubbers. Bottom line: it looks like the planet has got the bends." --Fred Pearce, environment writer and author of 'Confessions of an Eco Sinner'
"Even people concerned about climate change and the environment usually take the good health of life in the oceans for granted. In this lively anecdotal and often alarming book, Alanna Mitchell shows how wrong they are in simple very personal terms. Life began in the oceans, and life elsewhere stil depends on what happens there. When ocean chemistry changes, as it is now doing under human influcence, it may take forms that make us and other organisms worse than seasick. Read about it." --Sir Crispin Tickell, Former Chairman of both the Board of the Climate Institute of Washington DC and the International Institute for Environment and Development
"Alanna Mitchell sails, snorkels and dog-paddles the oceans with swashbuckling scientists who are growing very scared at the crisis in the deeps, and what it means for us land-lubbers. Bottom line: it looks like the planet has got the bends." --Fred Pearce, environment writer and author of 'Confessions of an Eco Sinner'
"Even people concerned about climate change and the environment usually take the good health of life in the oceans for granted. In this lively anecdotal and often alarming book, Alanna Mitchell shows how wrong they are in simple very personal terms. Life began in the oceans, and life elsewhere stil depends on what happens there. When ocean chemistry changes, as it is now doing under human influcence, it may take forms that make us and other organisms worse than seasick. Read about it." --Sir Crispin Tickell, Former Chairman of both the Board of the Climate Institute of Washington DC and the International Institute for Environment and Development
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"The net [Mitchell] has sewn in this book, connecting disparate scientists and compiling isolated strands of evidence, is an important one"
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My interest in the sea has come from a general environmental awareness and a mild obsession with the fact that the human race is busy wiping out all the fish in the oceans and seas through over-fishing. Anyway, so when I saw Seasick in a bookshop I grabbed it.
Anyone vaguely interested in the environment, global warming and the oceans should read this great book. It is first and foremost an easy read, so although it covers many scientifically contentious issues it is not fighting an academic battle that would make it a hard slog to get through. What it does do is paint a terrifying picture of what is happening to the oceans, and probably the planet in a measured and unassuming but investigative style. By using anecdotal evidence and the covering the views of scientists trying to work out what is happening to the oceans you are left to contemplate the potential impact on the planet that will occur. It is clear that climate change and human pollution is damaging the oceans and we don't really understand what the real impact will be.
You are left at the end of this book to make up your own mind, which has rather scary consequences.
Anyone vaguely interested in the environment, global warming and the oceans should read this great book. It is first and foremost an easy read, so although it covers many scientifically contentious issues it is not fighting an academic battle that would make it a hard slog to get through. What it does do is paint a terrifying picture of what is happening to the oceans, and probably the planet in a measured and unassuming but investigative style. By using anecdotal evidence and the covering the views of scientists trying to work out what is happening to the oceans you are left to contemplate the potential impact on the planet that will occur. It is clear that climate change and human pollution is damaging the oceans and we don't really understand what the real impact will be.
You are left at the end of this book to make up your own mind, which has rather scary consequences.
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