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A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.

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• Foreword(p. 6)
• Introduction: Why Care That the World Is Blue?(p. 9)
• Perspective(p. 15)
• I The Vision: Limitless Ocean Bounty, Infinite Resiliency
• Taking Wildlife I-The Mammals(p. 21)
• Taking Wildlife II-The Fish(p. 45)
• Taking Wildlife III-The Shellfish(p. 71)
• The Ultimate Garbage Disposal(p. 93)
• II The Reality: The Ocean Is In Trouble; Therefore, So Are We
• Biodiversity Loss: Unraveling the Fabric of Life in the Sea(p. 111)
• Drilling, Mining, Shipping, Spilling(p. 131)
• Changing Climate, Changing Chemistry(p. 151)
• III Now Is The Time: Opportunities For Action
• Exploring the Ocean(p. 177)
• Governing the Ocean(p. 195)
• Smart Aquaculture(p. 213)
• Protecting the Ocean(p. 223)
• Acknowledgments(p. 252)
• About the Author(p. 254)
• TED Talk(p. 256)
• Protected Marine Sites(p. 264)
• Chart Assessing Progress Toward Global Marine Protection Targets(p. 280)
• Marine Protected Areas Maps(p. 282)
• Bibliography(p. 286)
• Web Links(p. 298)

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CHOICE Review

Renowned oceanographer Earle (National Geographic) has been dubbed "Her Deepness" by The New Yorker and The New York Times, and the Library of Congress has called her a "Living Legend." In her latest work (see also Ocean, CH, Jun'09, 46-5374), Earle ably draws upon the strength and depth of her years of research and experience to focus on the numerous bonds between the oceans and humankind's future. Though perhaps not as poetically lyrical as penultimate environmental writer Rachel Carson, Earle is nonetheless a gifted and convincing author and is more than capable of keeping a reader's interest, no matter how technical the subject may become. In The World Is Blue, she ably illustrates, in ways both humorous and discomforting, how our cavalier attitude toward the ocean and its inhabitants is causing our slow but certain destruction. Even more importantly, Earle offers solutions and discusses ongoing actions that have been taken to reverse this frightening cycle of obliteration. Even those who do not consider themselves environmentalists will find themselves easily caught up in Earle's heroic fight to save our "blue world." Summing Up: Highly recommended. All libraries. S. E. Brazer Salisbury University

Booklist Review

Pioneering oceanographer Earle, the leader of more than 60 expeditions, author of numerous books, and a former NOAA chief scientist, asks us to think blue while we're thinking green because without healthy and fecund oceans, there could be no life on earth. After lucidly explaining how oceans sustain the biosphere, Earle documents with wrenching specificity how we are drastically altering the fundamental nature of the sea. Earle states, Ninety percent of the many fish common when I was a child are now gone. Why? Earle begins with a simple equation: Since the middle of the twentieth century, hundreds of millions of tons of ocean wildlife have been removed from the sea, while hundreds of millions of tons of waste have been poured into it. The viability of the oceans is threatened by 400 coastal dead zones, melting polar ice, vast quantities of plastic trash and toxic chemicals, overfishing, and deep-sea mining. Earle, who uses thrilling accounts of her undersea adventures to temper alarm with beauty and wonder, stresses that it's not too late to reverse the damage.--Seaman, Donna Copyright 2009 Booklist

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Sylvia A. Earle is a former NOAA chief scientist. She has led more than 60 expeditions as an oceanographer and explorer, authored 170 publications, and lectured in 70 countries. Among many other books to her credit, she is the author of Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas, with Linda K. Glover.