Cover image for The world is blue : how our fate and the ocean's are one / Sylvia A. Earle.
TITLE:
The world is blue : how our fate and the ocean's are one / Sylvia A. Earle.
Publication Date:
2009-2010
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic,
Physical Description:
319 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [308]-315).
Summary:
Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a global ecosystem on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis unless we act immediately. A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how the past 50 years of destructive--and ever accelerating--oceanic change threaten the very existence of life on Earth.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781426206399
General Note:
"Including the complete text of Dr. Earl's congressional testimony on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster"