Sea Sick: the global ocean in crisis

Alternatives Journal, August, 2009 by Tavis Bragg

Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis, Alanna Mitchell.

Alanna Mitchell, award-winning reporter and author of Dancing at the Dead Sea, details the urgent crisis facing our world's oceans. In Sea Sick, she demonstrates that although the planet's resilience has historically offset our impact, today it is a very different story. The oceans, the "mother eco-system" or "engine of evolution," contain the switch to life on Earth. Rather than focusing on the atmosphere or land, Mitchell suggests that our concern be directed to ocean acidification, the increase in size and quantity of marine dead zones and the destruction of coral reefs. She relies on the metaphor that the sea is our planet's blood. Without it, we cease to exist.

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