Water: The Causes, Costs, and Future of a Global Crisis

Caldecott is a United Nations Environment Programme biologist where he focuses on “environmental disaster management.” Reading his book on a recent flight from San Francisco to Mexico City got me thinking about oceans in a way I hadn’t before. Often I read about global environmental crises and get the sense that the problems are too vast and overwhelming for me to engage with on a very meaningful level. What can I really do about cleaning up the world’s oceans? Well, a lot as it turns out. Caldecott’s book explains the problems in a style that non-specialists can appreciate; he provides an unvarnished, but not hysterical picture of the situation, and he offers plenty of success stories and suggestions for things we can all do to help “turn the tide” when it comes to global water issues. (pun intended.)

- Christina Heyniger

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