The world’s oceans face multiple threats: the effects of climate change, pollution, overfishing, plastic waste, and more. Confronted with the immensity of these challenges and of the oceans themselves, we might wonder what more can be done to stop their decline and better protect the sea and marine life. Such widespread environmental threats call for a simple but significant shift in reasoning to bring about long-overdue, elemental change in the way we use ocean resources. In Future Sea, ocean advocate and marine-policy researcher Deborah Rowan Wright provides the tools for that shift. Questioning the underlying philosophy of established ocean conservation approaches, Rowan Wright lays out a radical alternative: a bold and far-reaching strategy of 100 percent ocean protection that would put an end to destructive industrial activities, better safeguard marine biodiversity, and enable ocean wildlife to return and thrive along coasts and in seas around the globe.
Future Sea is essentially concerned with the solutions and not the problems. Rowan Wright shines a light on existing international laws intended to keep marine environments safe that could underpin this new strategy. She gathers inspiring stories of communities and countries using ocean resources wisely, as well as of successful conservation projects, to build up a cautiously optimistic picture of the future for our oceans—counteracting all-too-prevalent reports of doom and gloom. A passionate, sweeping, and personal account, Future Sea not only argues for systemic change in how we manage what we do in the sea, but also describes steps that anyone, from children to political leaders (or indeed, any reader of the book), can take toward safeguarding the oceans and their extraordinary wildlife.
Plot:
How hard would it be to protect the entire ocean? I mean it technically does not belong to one country, despite many having coasts, so how hard would it be to have an international agreement to leave it alone? A threat to climate change, something people depend on for survival and a source of income, something that can take hundreds of lives with their storms, the ocean is a vast dangerous place that is currently under threat because of human use of it. From Deborah Wright’s British Columbia (Canada) orca watching trip to the night she was awoken with her plan to protect the entire ocean, Wright takes readers on this oceanic journey as they explain laws, actions, current conditions, and what needs to be done to make their thesis a reality.
Thoughts:
Deborah Rowan Wright's passion for the ocean is shown through this novel as they artistically took you around the world and made you believe in their universal ocean protected plan. This book is taken from the point of view of accepting Wright’s thesis, as they only write to those who already see the ocean as a vast ecosystem that needs protection. Thus, little time throughout this novel is spent convincing you of their theory, as they write in broad strokes with specific consequences of what happens if the ocean is not protected. As an ocean lover, this novel is fantastic at explaining UNCLOS III, the climate change effects on the ocean as the deadly trio, the issues with marine protected areas (MPA), and more. The biggest mind-opening aspect Wright brought me to is why fishing quota is hard to judge as we are trying to count something we cannot see. Ingenious! It makes perfect sense, but until seeing Wright put it in writing I never thought of it that way. Where Wright focuses on solutions to how to make their thesis a reality, they use easy writing that young adults and up can understand, especially if they are environmentally savvy. If you want to get into understanding ocean management - this is the book for you! If you want to know what your government can be doing to help the ocean - this is the book for you! If you just love the ocean, you guessed it - this is the book for you! To all my nature lovers, ocean swimmers, and people who want to see the world not go up in flames, Wright novel is about their thesis on protecting the entire ocean, consequences for lack of action, solutions for action, and information about the sea itself, the ocean's past and hopefully its future.
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