Oceana, Ted Danson
Oceana, Ted Danson
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Oceana
Our Planet's Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them

Author: Ted Danson, Michael D'Orso

Narrator: Michael Kramer

Unabridged: 6 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/31/2011

Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Ecology


Synopsis

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 catastrophe—the 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 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 to found Oceana, the largest organization in the world focused solely on ocean conservation.

In his incisive, conversational tone, 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 Oceana with some of the world's most respected authorities in the fields of marine science, commercial fishing, and environmental law, as well as with other influential activists.

In vivid, personal prose, Oceana powerfully illustrates the impending crises and offers solutions that may allow us to avert them, showing you the specific courses of action you can take to become active, responsible stewards of our planet's most precious resource—its oceans.

About Ted Danson

Ted Danson has acted in a wide variety of roles on both film and television, including his starring role in the television series Cheers. He has won two Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for many more, and currently appears in three critically acclaimed television shows: Damages, Bored to Death, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Originally from Arizona, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University. In 1987, Danson helped to found the American Oceans Campaign, an organization established to alert Americans to the hazards created by oil spills, offshore development, toxic waste, sewage, pollution, and other ocean abuses. In 2001, the American Oceans Campaign became Oceana, the largest international organization focused solely on ocean conservation, and Danson serves on Oceana's board of directors. He lives with his wife and family in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert on March 28, 2011

Oceana is a very beautiful and informative book. I always knew things were bad in our oceans (the big plastic "island" in the pacific, coral bleaching, ocean warming, overfishing, etc), but I really didn't know how bad. The pollution issues aside, we're basically strip-mining our oceans, acting like......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on February 22, 2014

Ten Danson, I love you. This books is beautiful and informative. The images help bring you into this underwater world so much so that we want to learn even more about it once we are finished. Not for lack of information in this book but because we feel attached when it's over and we feel that we hav......more

Goodreads review by Cottageunderhill on April 30, 2013

Although this book takes a very serious look at everything involving the oceans, it is also designed beautifully. From pollution (oil spills) to fisheries, from global warming indicators to human habitats that depend solely on the ocean, and from monster trawlers to single fishermen, this book enlig......more

Goodreads review by Kenno82 on December 23, 2012

This is a pretty good starting point for anybody concerned about the breadth of issues currently facing the health of our oceans. The book is beautifully laid out with some fantastic photography and doubles nicely as a coffee table book. However, it also reads like a bit of a brochure for Oceana, th......more

Goodreads review by Megan on June 06, 2015

Having read a lot of these kind of ocean conservation mind books I thought Oceana provided a great overview to many of the most pressing issues. However, I wish you would've given more concrete suggestions rather than just write your senator write your congressmanand also have laid out the science m......more