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The High Seas
Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean
Buch von Olive Heffernan
Sprache: Englisch

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THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER

'Powerful reportage...awash with wonderful obscurities' The Sunday Times


'A comprehensive investigation of the staggering damage we have done to the world's oceans and its life forms' Observer

'A vital, fascinating, deeply researched exploration of Earth's last wilderness... Shocking and starkly 'illuminating - a must-read' Gaia Vince

The ocean covers seventy per cent of the surface of our planet, and two thirds of this lie beyond national borders. Owned by all nations and no nation simultaneously, these waters are home to some of the richest and most biodiverse environments on the planet. But they are also home to exploitation on a scale that few of us can imagine.

Here, industry and economic progress rule and lax enforcement and apathy are the status quo. Out of sight and often out of mind, a battle rages to control, profit from, protect, or obliterate the world's largest, wildest commons. Heffernan sets sail on a journey to uncover the truth behind deeply exploitative fishing practices, investigate the potentially devastating impact of deep-sea mining, and hold to task the Silicon-valley interventionists whose solutions to climate change are often wildly optimistic, radically irresponsible or both.

The result is a forceful and deeply researched manifesto calling for the protection and preservation of this final frontier - the last vestiges of wilderness on Earth.

THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER

'Powerful reportage...awash with wonderful obscurities' The Sunday Times


'A comprehensive investigation of the staggering damage we have done to the world's oceans and its life forms' Observer

'A vital, fascinating, deeply researched exploration of Earth's last wilderness... Shocking and starkly 'illuminating - a must-read' Gaia Vince

The ocean covers seventy per cent of the surface of our planet, and two thirds of this lie beyond national borders. Owned by all nations and no nation simultaneously, these waters are home to some of the richest and most biodiverse environments on the planet. But they are also home to exploitation on a scale that few of us can imagine.

Here, industry and economic progress rule and lax enforcement and apathy are the status quo. Out of sight and often out of mind, a battle rages to control, profit from, protect, or obliterate the world's largest, wildest commons. Heffernan sets sail on a journey to uncover the truth behind deeply exploitative fishing practices, investigate the potentially devastating impact of deep-sea mining, and hold to task the Silicon-valley interventionists whose solutions to climate change are often wildly optimistic, radically irresponsible or both.

The result is a forceful and deeply researched manifesto calling for the protection and preservation of this final frontier - the last vestiges of wilderness on Earth.

Über den Autor
Olive Heffernan is an award-winning science journalist. Her work has been published in Nature, WIRED, National Geographic, Guardian, New Scientist and BBC Wildlife, among other outlets. Now freelance, Olive spent a number of years with Nature covering climate change, including as first chief editor of the research journal Nature Climate Change. In 2019, she joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University as an adjunct lecturer, and in 2020 received a Giles St Aubyn Award for non-fiction from the Royal Society of Literature. Olive is currently funded by the Pulitzer Centre to report on ocean conservation in Europe. She lives by the sea in Ireland with her husband and children and spends her spare time cold-water swimming, paddle-boarding, kayaking, and rock-pooling.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781788163576
ISBN-10: 1788163575
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Heffernan, Olive
Auflage: Main
Hersteller: Profile Books
Maße: 237 x 157 x 36 mm
Von/Mit: Olive Heffernan
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.05.2024
Gewicht: 0,562 kg
Artikel-ID: 120522452
Über den Autor
Olive Heffernan is an award-winning science journalist. Her work has been published in Nature, WIRED, National Geographic, Guardian, New Scientist and BBC Wildlife, among other outlets. Now freelance, Olive spent a number of years with Nature covering climate change, including as first chief editor of the research journal Nature Climate Change. In 2019, she joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University as an adjunct lecturer, and in 2020 received a Giles St Aubyn Award for non-fiction from the Royal Society of Literature. Olive is currently funded by the Pulitzer Centre to report on ocean conservation in Europe. She lives by the sea in Ireland with her husband and children and spends her spare time cold-water swimming, paddle-boarding, kayaking, and rock-pooling.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781788163576
ISBN-10: 1788163575
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Heffernan, Olive
Auflage: Main
Hersteller: Profile Books
Maße: 237 x 157 x 36 mm
Von/Mit: Olive Heffernan
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.05.2024
Gewicht: 0,562 kg
Artikel-ID: 120522452
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