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"Girling pulls no punches in this passionate and blackly witty expose of the problems that face us . . . We can only hope that Girling's eloquent analysis of what is wrong might affect the decisions to be made." (CULTURE magazine, Sunday Times)
"This is a vivid and devastating account of the decline and fall of the precious waters lapping our coasts . . . [Girling] is an extremely good writer . . . he also manages to weave a wonderfully dry humour into the long and sorry catalogue of generations of neglect and short-sightedness . . . This is a book to make you think." (Daily Mail)
"Anyone who cares about the coast should read this book - before it is too late." (Nicholas Crane)
"Scarcely pausing for one slow and adoring gaze across the Norfolk coast he loves, Richard Girling plunges off from the first page into the most brilliant and devastating attack yet written on bungling, political weakness, incompetence and sheer slowness of those who are meant to be in charge of the seas around our shores." (Adam Nicolson Evening Standard)
"Richard Girling calls the sea our civilisation's "amniotic fluid". His story of its violation by oil pollution, over-fishing, climate-change-driven erosion and our belief that we have the wisdom to "manage" the marine environment is shocking. It's a story of arrogance, ignorance and greed, and in Girling's electrifying prose it becomes a parable of wilful matricide." (Richard Mabey)
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"This is a vivid and devastating account of the decline and fall of the precious waters lapping our coasts . . . [Girling] is an extremely good writer . . . he also manages to weave a wonderfully dry humour into the long and sorry catalogue of generations of neglect and short-sightedness . . . This is a book to make you think." (Daily Mail)
"Anyone who cares about the coast should read this book - before it is too late." (Nicholas Crane)
"Scarcely pausing for one slow and adoring gaze across the Norfolk coast he loves, Richard Girling plunges off from the first page into the most brilliant and devastating attack yet written on bungling, political weakness, incompetence and sheer slowness of those who are meant to be in charge of the seas around our shores." (Adam Nicolson Evening Standard)
"Richard Girling calls the sea our civilisation's "amniotic fluid". His story of its violation by oil pollution, over-fishing, climate-change-driven erosion and our belief that we have the wisdom to "manage" the marine environment is shocking. It's a story of arrogance, ignorance and greed, and in Girling's electrifying prose it becomes a parable of wilful matricide." (Richard Mabey)
The sea drives our economy, our lifestyle and our politics. It affects what we eat, how we travel, our use of the land and how we relate to our continental neighbours. Our love affair with our coastline inspires myth and legend, and influences our literature, our music and our art.
Yet we abuse and despoil our native waters as if we imagine they are infinitely resourceful and forgiving.Our once-grand seaside resorts now embrace some of the poorest neighbourhoods in Europe, while our management of our seaports is so inept that we bring chaos to our roads. And all the time our reckless consumption of fossil fuels pumps out greenhouse gases that accelerate climate change and guarantee a future of ever more violent storms, rising seas and destruction.
With passion and rigour, Richard Girling examines the history and consequences of the issues that confront us along our coastline. Outraged, bemused, despairing, he is also compelling and irrepressibly entertaining as he sifts for solutions along the sands.
Yet we abuse and despoil our native waters as if we imagine they are infinitely resourceful and forgiving.Our once-grand seaside resorts now embrace some of the poorest neighbourhoods in Europe, while our management of our seaports is so inept that we bring chaos to our roads. And all the time our reckless consumption of fossil fuels pumps out greenhouse gases that accelerate climate change and guarantee a future of ever more violent storms, rising seas and destruction.
With passion and rigour, Richard Girling examines the history and consequences of the issues that confront us along our coastline. Outraged, bemused, despairing, he is also compelling and irrepressibly entertaining as he sifts for solutions along the sands.
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- ÉditeurEden Project Books
- Date d'édition2007
- ISBN 10 1903919770
- ISBN 13 9781903919774
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