Let Them Eat Shrimp The Tragic Disappearance of the Rainforests of the Sea (Audible Audio Edition) Kennedy Warne Kevin Young Audible Studios Books
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What's the connection between a platter of jumbo shrimp at your local restaurant and murdered fishermen in Honduras, impoverished women in Ecuador, and disastrous hurricanes along America's Gulf coast? Mangroves. Many people have never heard of these salt-water forests, but for those who depend on their riches, mangroves are indispensable. They are natural storm barriers, home to innumerable exotic creatures - from crab eating vipers to man-eating tigers - and provide food and livelihoods to millions of coastal dwellers. Now they are being destroyed to make way for shrimp farming and other coastal development. For those who stand in the way of these industries, the consequences can be deadly.
In Let Them Eat Shrimp, Kennedy Warne takes listeners into the muddy battle zone that is the mangrove forest. A tangle of snaking roots and twisted trunks, mangroves are often dismissed as foul wastelands. In fact, they are supermarkets of the sea, providing shellfish, crabs, honey, timber, and charcoal to coastal communities from Florida to South America to New Zealand. Generations have built their lives around mangroves and consider these swamps sacred.
To shrimp farmers and land developers, mangroves simply represent a good investment. The tidal land on which they stand often has no title, so with a nod and wink from a compliant official, it can be turned from a public resource to a private possession. The forests are bulldozed, their traditional users dispossessed.
The true price of shrimp farming and other coastal development has gone largely unheralded in the U.S. media. A longtime journalist, Warne now captures the insatiability of these industries and the magic of the mangroves. His vivid account will make every listener pause before ordering the shrimp.
Let Them Eat Shrimp The Tragic Disappearance of the Rainforests of the Sea (Audible Audio Edition) Kennedy Warne Kevin Young Audible Studios Books
61 of 75 for 2015. I may never eat shrimp again. OK That's not true, but having read Kennedy study of the mangrove forests around the world, I have a new appreciation for how our endless shrimp feasts are negatively impacting the climate. Mangrove forests grow around the world in the tropical latitudes. They grow as far north as Florida and as far south as the north island of New Zealand. They can be found on pretty much every continent except Europe and Antarctica, and usually in third world countries were the people who live within the forests or who depend on the forests are barely beyond the hunter-gatherer stage. I knew next to nothing about mangroves before reading Kennedy's work, and now know just a bit more, but enough to know that these relatively unknown and unappreciated parts of the environment are extremely important to our future. Mangroves are incredibly efficient carbon collectors, for example, and if we were to restore the forests we've cut down for shrimp farms, we could possibly reverse the ever growing amount of carbon we release into the atmosphere. Kennedy's book is quite readable, indeed at times seems more like a travelogue than a scientific tome. He takes the reader along to Ecuador, Brazil, Bangladesh, Panama, Tanzania, as well as Florida and other places around the world where humans interact, not always in the best way, with mangrove forests, the forests of the sea. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It is a must read for anyone interested in climate change and the future of our world.Product details
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Let Them Eat Shrimp The Tragic Disappearance of the Rainforests of the Sea (Audible Audio Edition) Kennedy Warne Kevin Young Audible Studios Books Reviews
I have been around mangroves for much of my life. Mainly the stunted ones found in south east Florida around Fort Lauderdale and that are being torn down to make room for things like dry-stack marinas. I had absolutely NO idea as to how vital these mangroves are to the economic life of so many people around the world and how important they are, simply to LIFE in this world and Kennedy Warne does a great job of laying out why it\s important to stop their destruction no matter now much someone likes eating shrimp.
This is a rare look at what has only turned into another "Get rich quick at all cost and cause another ecological disaster" paradigm that seems to be so prevalent on our planet these days. It's a sad commentary on our times written with heart and insight. It was a real eye-opener for me, and I appreciated the up-close look at yet another travesty of our ecology perpetrated by money hungry humans and easily bought out government officials. How do some find it so easy to sell out the planet and it's people for fast cash?
I will be watching this issue now and pray that this untold story of the Mangrove's fight for life falls into enough hands to make a difference for this very important piece of our ecology and those who depend on it. I highly recommend this book for nature lovers everywhere!
This book is an eye opener.
I thought this was going to be a very dry book. I am glad that it wasn't. This book is not just about the shrimping industry but about the mangroves, and the people who live in the areas. It is a hard look at how the shrimp industry has killed off the mangroves and left people in poverty.
It is about the disgusting things that raising ponds of shrimp does to the land, to the people in the community, to the water tables. It is a look at the joke of "sustainable shrimping" claims being made to keep selling shrimp. It is a look at the nasty food, antibiotics and waste that the shrimp are living in and eating.
I will be leery about purchasing shrimp and will be carefully checking labels from now on! Shrimp is good, but it shouldn't be raised like this. I would prefer to pay more for wild caught shrimp than to poison the environment and the shrimp to get cheaper shrimp.
for anyone interested in conservation, this book shines a light on an ecosystem not much in the news - the mangroves around the world which perform so many vital ecological functions. It's lively, well written, and certainly opened my eyes to what Warne calls the "rainforests of the sea."
Most of us never stop to wonder where the dish we eat in some fancy restaurant comes from. What, for instance, does that dish of succulent shrimp in front of you have to do with murdered fishermen in Honduras or killer hurricanes on the Gulf coast?
In Let Them Eat Shrimp The Tragic Disappearance of the Rainforests of the Sea, Kennedy Warne writes about the disappearance of the world’s mangrove forests, nearly impenetrable masses of trees and plants along some of our shorelines that serve as great breeding grounds for shrimp and other marine species. In easy-to-understand, nontechnical language, he shows how the rampant exploitation of these irreplaceable resources impacts peoples’ lives, local economies, and the global ecosphere. Warne details, in stark words, how the world’s fate is inextricably linked to the fate of the mangroves.
He gives you something to think about the next time you order a shrimp cocktail.
It is a very well written book and on a subject of which I had no idea. Most shrimp culture tends to destroy mangrove forests and actually from what I read mangroves are 50 percent more effective than the tropical forests in absorbing the pollutants such as carbons from the atmosphere. While shrimps are grown for export to rich countries by conglomerates, pollute the ocean and alter the water eco systems, mangroves provide sustenance for local people. When done right, a certain percentage of the wood from mangroves can be harvested and crabs and cockles etc. can form a part of their diet. Mangroves also prevent soil erosion and offer protection when big storms rage. Plus a mangrove forest sustains a whole group of other creatures and birds. The author has traveled to various places in the world to study mangroves. While I read it in stages, I am glad I did. We are almost vegetarian but I loved at times to make a shrimp rice and just never knew how detrimental the whole shrimp culture is to the environment and the local population.
61 of 75 for 2015. I may never eat shrimp again. OK That's not true, but having read Kennedy study of the mangrove forests around the world, I have a new appreciation for how our endless shrimp feasts are negatively impacting the climate. Mangrove forests grow around the world in the tropical latitudes. They grow as far north as Florida and as far south as the north island of New Zealand. They can be found on pretty much every continent except Europe and Antarctica, and usually in third world countries were the people who live within the forests or who depend on the forests are barely beyond the hunter-gatherer stage. I knew next to nothing about mangroves before reading Kennedy's work, and now know just a bit more, but enough to know that these relatively unknown and unappreciated parts of the environment are extremely important to our future. Mangroves are incredibly efficient carbon collectors, for example, and if we were to restore the forests we've cut down for shrimp farms, we could possibly reverse the ever growing amount of carbon we release into the atmosphere. Kennedy's book is quite readable, indeed at times seems more like a travelogue than a scientific tome. He takes the reader along to Ecuador, Brazil, Bangladesh, Panama, Tanzania, as well as Florida and other places around the world where humans interact, not always in the best way, with mangrove forests, the forests of the sea. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It is a must read for anyone interested in climate change and the future of our world.
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