Turning the Tide: Saving the Chesapeake Bay

Rating:
Summary: fascinating, but a little bit rambling
Review: This book is a fascinating 300 page message to the public that if the Cheasapeake Bay, a long sufferer of pollution and overharvesting, is to survive as both a marketable commodity and a landmark of the southeast, many changes must be put into place. Horton explains many interwoven factors contributing to the bay's problems, including nitrogen, phosphorus pollution (from farm fertilizers), sediment pollution (which clouds water and suffocates underwater grasses), overfishing, and sprawl development. It was really interesting to see how all these parts were the sum of a greater equation, and gets you to think how something simple you do everyday and take for granted really could have an effect on something miles away (hairspray, anyone?). The one thing I didn't like though is that a lot of the information was repeated (probably intentional to stress his points) and you could pretty much get the gist of the book before you were halfway done. But overall, a very solid, eyeopening, and unflinchingly LIBERAL book!