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Pac.GC1085 .W66 2000
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TITLE: Ocean's end : travels through endangered seas / Colin Woodard.
ADDED TITLE: Travels through endangered seas
AUTHOR: Woodard, Colin, 1968-
PUBLISHED: New York : Basic Books, 2000.
DESCRIPTION: xiv, 300 p. : map ; 24 cm.
NOTES: Donated by Professor Gene Ashby (8/15/2001)
NOTES: Includes bibliographical references and index.
NOTES: CONTENTS: Sections :--1. Dead Seas--2. Ocean blues.--3. Run on the banks.--4. Muddied waters.--5. Fall of the Magic Kingdom.--6. Paradise Lost (..."climate change, global warming, and the possible destruction of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.", p. 174.--7. Message from the ice (Antarctica).--8. Sea change.
NOTES: ..."This is a book about the deterioration of life in the oceans and along its shores. It is a story much like that of the destruction of tropical rainforests, only far larger in scale. A vital and irreplaceable part of the living planet is being destroyed before we even begin to understand it....But the underlying problem is ignorance...First,...we must understand what the oceans are and how we are causing them so much trouble." (p. 35)
SUBJECT: Marine pollution.
SUBJECT: Marine resources conservation.

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