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Oceana : Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them by Ted Danson; Michael D'Orso is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
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Most people know Ted Danson as the affable bartender Sam Malone in the long-running television series Cheers. But fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming global catastrophethe massive destruction of our planet's oceanic biosystems and the complete collapse of the world's major commercial fisheries. In Oceana, Danson details his journey from joining a modest local protest in the mid-1980s to oppose offshore oil drilling near his Southern California neighborhood to his current status as one of the world's most influential oceanic environmental activists, testifying before congressional committees in Washington, D.C., addressing the World Trade Organization in Zurich, Switzerland, and helping found Oceana, the largest organization in the world focused solely on ocean conservation. In his incisive, conversational voice, Danson describes what has happened to our oceans in just the past half-century, ranging from the ravages of overfishing and habitat destruction to the devastating effects of ocean acidification and the wasteful horrors of fish farms. Danson also shares the stage of
Who reads Oceana : Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ted Danson; Michael D'Orso
- Publisher
- Rodale Books
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781609613983
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Political Science, Fiction, Science
- Rating
- 4.22 / 5 (210 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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