1. Changing seas -- Four and a half billion years -- Food from the sea-- Fewer fish in the sea --Winds and currents -- Life on the move -- Rising tides -- Corrosive seas -- Dead zones and the world's great rivers -- Unwholesome waters -- The age of plastic -- The not so silent world -- Aliens, invaders, and the homogenization of life -- Pestilence and plague -- Mare incognitum -- Ecosystems at your service -- 2. Changing course -- Farming the sea -- The great cleanup -- Can we cool our warming world? -- A new deal for the oceans -- Life renewed -- Saving the giants of the sea -- Preparing for the worst -- Epilogue : the sea ahead
Summary:
Putting our exploitation of the seas into historical context, Roberts offers a devastating account of the impact of modern fishing techniques, pollution, and climate change, and reveals what it would take to steer the right course while there is still time.
