EAN: 9781788163576

THE HIGH SEAS - OLIVE HEFFERNAN GEBUNDEN

'Powerful reportage...awash with wonderful obscurities' The Sunday Times 'A vital  fascinating
deeply researched exploration of Earth's last wilderness... Shocking and starkly illuminating -
a must-read.' Gaia Vince The ocean covers seventy per cent of the surface of our planet  and
two thirds of this lie beyond national borders. Owned by all nations and no nation
simultaneously  these waters are home to some of the richest and most biodiverse environments
on the planet. But they are also home to exploitation on a scale that few of us can imagine.
Here  industry and economic progress rule and lax enforcement and apathy are the status quo.
Out of sight and often out of mind  a battle rages to control  profit from  protect  or
obliterate the world's largest  wildest commons. Heffernan sets sail on a journey to uncover
the truth behind deeply exploitative fishing practices  investigate the potentially devastating
impact of deep-sea mining  and hold to task the Silicon-valley interventionists whose solutions
to climate change are often wildly optimistic  radically irresponsible or both. The result is a
forceful and deeply researched manifesto calling for the protection and preservation of this
final frontier - the last vestiges of wilderness on Earth.

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