Exploring the links between clear-cutting in places like Oregon and the Philippines and declining ocean wildlife populations, Safina makes the familiar case for the interrelatedness of various ecosystems seem fresh, writing as a sympathetic correspondent from the front lines. His ""encounters"" include some with fishermen and workers for corporations, whose needs he makes an effort to understand-though the corporations themselves don't fare so well in his assessment, and seemingly with good cause. But research ecologist Safina, who founded the Living Oceans Program of the National Audubon Society, is no knee-jerk gainsayer of the people and practices responsible for the environmental devastation he tracks here. Do you envision half a ton of laminated muscle rocketing through the sea as fast as you drive your automobile?"" From tales of watching giant bluefin tuna off the Gulf of Maine to diving into ""a china shop of corals"" off Palau, nearly every sentence in Safina's state-of-the-oceans report is informed by his deep sense of these waters' beauty-and fragility.
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