The World is Blue

Explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society, oceanographer Sylvia Earle (in 1998, named Time Magazine's first "Hero for the Planet") adds blue to the green movement by explaining the importance of the earth's ocean to the health of its life. It's been called 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. Fortunately, there is reason for hope, but what we do—or fail to do—in the next ten years may well resonate for the next ten thousand. The ultimate goal, Earle argues passionately and persuasively, is to find responsible, renewable strategies that safeguard the natural systems that sustain us.