EAN: 9781788163576

THE HIGH SEAS - OLIVE HEFFERNAN GEBUNDEN

THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER    'Powerful reportage...awash with wonderful obscurities' The
Sunday Times    ' 'A comprehensive investigation of the staggering damage we have done to the
world's oceans and its life forms' Observer    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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