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The Empty Sea - The Future of the Blue Economy (Hardcover, 2021 ed.)
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The Empty Sea - The Future of the Blue Economy (Hardcover, 2021 ed.)
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The "Blue Economy" is used to describe all of the economic
activities related to the sea, with a special emphasis on
sustainability. Traditional activities such as fisheries, but also
undersea mining, tourism, and scientific research are included, as
well as the phenomenal growth of aquaculture during the past
decade. All of these activities, and the irresistible prospect of
another new frontier, has led to enthusiastic and, most likely,
overenthusiastic assessments of the possibilities to exploit the
sea to feed the world, provide low-cost energy, become a new source
of minerals, and other future miracles. This book makes sense of
these trends and of the future of the blue economy by following our
remote ancestors who gradually discovered the sea and its
resources, describing the so-called fisherman's curse - or why
fishermen have always been poor, explaining why humans tend to
destroy the resources on which we depend, and assessing the
realistic expectations for extracting resources from the sea.
Although the sea is not so badly overexploited as the land, our
demands on ecosystem services are already above the oceans'
sustainability limits. Some new ideas, including "fishing down" for
untapped resources such as plankton, could lead to the collapse of
the entire marine ecosystem. How Neanderthals crossed the sea in
canoes, how it was possible for five men on a small boat to kill a
giant whale, what kind of oil the virgins of the Gospel put into
their lamps, how a professor of mathematics, Vito Volterra,
discovered the "equations of fishing," why it has become so easy to
be stung by a jellyfish while swimming in the sea, and how to play
"Moby Dick," a simple board game that simulates the
overexploitation of natural resources are just some of the
questions that you will be able to answer after reading this
engaging and insightful book about the rapidly expanding
relationship between humanity and the sea.
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