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    Oceana: Our Planet's Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them
    Oceana: Our Planet's Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them
    Oceana: Our Planet's Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them
    Audiobook6 hours

    Oceana: Our Planet's Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them

    Written by Ted Danson and Michael D'Orso

    Narrated by Michael Kramer

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    About this audiobook

    Most people know Ted Danson as the affable bartender Sam Malone in the long-running television series Cheers. But fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming global catastrophe-the massive destruction of our planet's oceanic biosystems and the complete collapse of the world's major commercial fisheries.

    In Oceana, Danson details his journey from joining a modest local protest in the mid-1980s to oppose offshore drilling near his Southern California neighborhood to his current status as one of the world's most influential oceanic environmental activists, testifying before congressional committees in Washington, D.C., addressing the World Trade Organization in Zurich, Switzerland, and helping to found Oceana, the largest organization in the world focused solely on ocean conservation.

    In his incisive, conversational tone, Danson describes what has happened to our oceans in just the past half-century, ranging from the ravages of overfishing and habitat destruction to the devastating effects of ocean acidification and the wasteful horrors of fish farms. Danson also shares the stage of Oceana with some of the world's most respected authorities in the fields of marine science, commercial fishing, and environmental law, as well as with other influential activists.

    In vivid, personal prose, Oceana powerfully illustrates the impending crises and offers solutions that may allow us to avert them, showing you the specific courses of action you can take to become active, responsible stewards of our planet's most precious resource-its oceans.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 31, 2011
    ISBN9781452671468
    Oceana: Our Planet's Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them

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    • 3/5
      This is a pretty good starting point for anybody concerned about the breadth of issues currently facing the health of our oceans. The book is beautifully laid out with some fantastic photography and doubles nicely as a coffee table book. However, it also reads like a bit of a brochure for Oceana, the conservation group that Ted Danson fronts. If you want something that offers more regarding these issues and is enjoyable to read, I would direct you to works from Carl Safina and Four Fish by Paul Greenberg.