pickThe book that inspired a slump, through no fault of its own, but I had to present this to a group and I was so preoccupied by the presentation I couldn‘t read otherwise! An excellent read about our oceans, the creatures in them, how humans have and are causing destruction, what has been done to reverse the damage, and what we can do moving forward. I loved Scales‘ writing—blending personal stories and data. A real winner from the Women‘s Prize.
pickI don't usually pick up books about the environment, but this was a fascinating look at our changing oceans.
A thanks to the Women's Prize for NF as I wouldn't have picked it up otherwise!
...efforts are already underway to clean up the plastic debris floating in the ocean. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit organisation, was founded in 2013 by a then-teenage entrepreneur, Boylan Slat, from the Netherlands. Outraged by disastrous plastic pollution... began sending out ships towing U-shaped barriers to skim floating plastic from the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch....
https://theoceancleanup.com/
Elsewhere, coral species are gathered up, and their cells, sperm, and eggs are frozen. It's a similar scheme to seed banks, which aim to preserve all the world's plants, so people in the future can use them to breed the crops they need or replant species that are lost from the wild. Coral DNA is also being sequenced and archived to preserve the genetic codes that would be lost forever if those species went extinct.
