![]() Setting aside the content, which is presented clearly and unsentimentally, I was blown away by Safina's excellent writing. Where Safina held out some hope that if we acted quickly the salmon runs might be salvaged, my newspaper ten years on is much less sanguine. It was interesting and disheartening to be reading the section in Safina's book about the Northwest's salmon annihilation while seeing daily reports in the Oregonian which said basically the same thing, only worse. I Googled around some, looking for hopeful trends. I hoped, reading it, that some of what the scientists at the various front lines were telling Safina would have percolated into the nonscientific community and been acted upon. ![]() I had to put it down and read hopeful things in between chapters, but I also was compelled to return. ![]() More than once I thought suicide might be a reasonable alternative to using up more of our resources. Parts made me cry hard enough I got a headache. This incredible book is a searing look at humanity's attitude towards the formerly inexhaustible sea, and I will never be the same after reading it. ![]()
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