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Summary: A great book
Review: This is a great book. Thoughtful, balanced, readable. Buy two copies and give one to a friend.
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Summary: Ocean's End
Review: What about the oceans that surround , and the beautiful (and yet, dangerous) shorelines of all Indonesia, including the deep trenches all ways from the northwestern to Timor Sea? Why are those waters chilled? Waters from the Antartica, the trenches deeper than the Grand Canyon? You need to explore more nature there. And talk to save them.
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Summary: The author needs to do his homeowrk,
Review: What has so much power that we underestimate its vast superiority? What can destroy millions on homes without thinking? What is the one resource we have an abundance of? Water and specifically the ocean, so do we need to worry? Well according to Colin Woodward there is and should a major concern.In Ocean's End, Woodward describes how the world is destroying the ocean and the way this affect everyone's life. While the author attempts to be convincing he fall short in his delivery. Using the "global" mentality, Woodward talks about how we need to come together to solve the crisis. Woodward elaborates on pollution, over fishing and global warming as reasons we are headed for disaster. While I agree with the pollution part, over fishing is a problem I cannot agree with the global warming scam, there is no evidence to prove this theory in the book. Woodward also wants you to let government "regulate" the oceans in a global ecosystem. Again while I think we need to look into the problem, government intervention and regulation would only infringe on our rights of freedom. Woodward is well presented, his arguments are the shortcoming.
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Summary: Well written and readable...Very timely subject
Review: Woodard takes us on a world tour of the crisis facing the oceans. From the Antarctic ice sheet to the Cancer alley of the lower Mississippi, Woodard travelled the globe, interviewing policy makers, scientists, and ordinary people affected by the environmental changes. The style is both readable and rigorous. Woodard takes great pains to make clear what is known and what is not, and while clearly reaching "green" conclusions, he is careful to examine different perspectives. Woodard is a master storyteller. The people he comes across in his travels come to life as each chapter unwinds another environmental and economic tragedy in progress. This is a very human book. Woodard doesn't wallow in the "fish-kissers" moral approach to environmentalism (what did that shrimp do to you?). Nor does he delve too deeply into the minutia of the science affecting a particular ecosystem (Do mollusks have brains?) Instead, he makes a compelling case for how the ongoing degradation affects both the local people who rely on a part of the oceans directly and human life as a whole. I highly recommend this book to all concerned world citizens. We are past worrying about what is the "right" thing to do with respect to the oceans. We need to be concerned about what can be done to prevent a major disruption in the world's economic, climate, and food supply systems.
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Summary: A warning from one who has seen the future
Review: Woodard's book does for the oceans what Mark Herstgaard's "Earth Odessy" did for the rest of the planet. It sounds the alarm of environment degredation. Lie Herstgaard, Woodard does not just sit around and speculate, he travelled to the world's environmental trouble spots and reports what he saw. Particularly chilling is his description of the "death" of the Black Sea and how a similar fate might befall the Gulf of Mexico. Like Herstgaard, Woodard offers solutions for the environmental crises he describes, however unlikely that they might ever be enacted by world governments. For the most part, this is quite a compelling book.
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Summary: amazing book
Review: Woodard's book does for the oceans what Mark Herstgaard's "Earth Odessy" did for the rest of the planet. It sounds the alarm of environment degredation. Lie Herstgaard, Woodard does not just sit around and speculate, he travelled to the world's environmental trouble spots and reports what he saw. Particularly chilling is his description of the "death" of the Black Sea and how a similar fate might befall the Gulf of Mexico. Like Herstgaard, Woodard offers solutions for the environmental crises he describes, however unlikely that they might ever be enacted by world governments. For the most part, this is quite a compelling book.
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Summary: A warning from one who has seen the future
Review: Woodard's book does for the oceans what Mark Herstgaard's "Earth Odessy" did for the rest of the planet. It sounds the alarm of environment degredation. Lie Herstgaard, Woodard does not just sit around and speculate, he travelled to the world's environmental trouble spots and reports what he saw. Particularly chilling is his description of the "death" of the Black Sea and how a similar fate might befall the Gulf of Mexico. Like Herstgaard, Woodard offers solutions for the environmental crises he describes, however unlikely that they might ever be enacted by world governments. For the most part, this is quite a compelling book.
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