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Uplifting climate books to inspire hope about the planet’s future

The End Of The Line

Now in paperback, this highly acclaimed book looks at the disastrous impact of overfishing, and how it will change your life

It is a rare book that changes one's life, even in a small way ... Charles Clover has written a shocking book about the effects of industrial fishing

Anyone with the slightest interest in where our fish comes from, and the devastating effects of our voracious appetite for it, should read this

Devastating - a succinct and powerful crash course on the pressing environmental issues surrounding fish that should send consumer awareness soaring

Entertaining, outrageous and a must-read for anyone who cares about the sea and its denizens

This is an issue which needs populist exposure.  Clover has done it admirably - a brilliant exposition

Anyone who loves to eat fish will be fascinated, appalled and challenged by this book

Charles Clover has been Environment Editor of the Daily Telegraph for a number of years. He has been three-times winner of the National journalist category of British Environment and Media Awards. He lives with his family in Essex.

We have reached a pivotal moment for fishing, with seventy-five percent of the world's fish stocks either fully exploited or overfished. If nothing is done to stop the squandering of fish stocks the life of the oceans will face collapse and millions of people could starve. 
 
Fish is the aspirational food for Western society, the healthy, weight-conscious choice, but those who eat and celebrate fish often ignore the fact that the fishing industry, although as technologically advanced as space travel, has an attitude to conservation 10,000 years out of date. Trawling on an industrial scale in the North Sea takes 16 lbs of dead marine animals to produce just 1lb of sole. Regulation isn't working, fishermen must cheat or lose money, dolphins and other wildlife (seabirds, turtles, sharks) are killed unnecessarily and fish stocks are collapsing despite the warnings. 
 
The End of the Line looks at the problem and proves that we, as consumers, have to change if the situation is to improve.

Charles Clover

A game-changer! People are hungry for a plan to reverse ocean death so we can keep breathing!

I doubt any more important book will be published this year. Charles Clover tells (with spirit and style) an alarming and convincing story, yet it is one that offers hope and a way forward for our beleaguered oceans ... and us.

[An] optimistic manifesto for change...There are so many stories here of nature's titanic powers - if only we give her a chance - that it's ultimately a genuinely optimistic and energising read

This book is desperately needed. Interest in terrestrial rewilding is rocketing and now it is time for the sea. The material Charles Clover will be covering is rich, urgent and fascinating. There will be so many people who will be desperate to get behind this book.

This uplifting book proves rewilding can fill oceans with teeming life again...powerful...forceful...

What if our seas became productive again with giant sturgeon, halibut and skate? What if we let the seas soak up carbon from the atmosphere like the peat bogs instead of battering them with trawls and dredges? It's closer than you think. In fact, as Charles Clover explains, rewilding the sea has already begun.

An important, intriguing and informative book' with 'admirable optimism

Two deadly problems: the climate crisis and biodiversity collapse. One elegant solution: Rewild the ocean.

The Oceans are in a bad state, mainly because of overfishing, but there is hope: the solutions are here.

Marine conservation successes are at the heart of Charles Clover's latest book.

Save the ocean to help feed the world. From Lyme Bay to Ascension Island, Clover shows how it can be done.

Abundant oceans are a huge gift we can present to the future. In this terrific book Charles Clover shows how it can be done with actual tales of rebuilding success.

Charles Clover brings a lifetime's commitment to and expertise in environmental causes to this impassioned plea to save our oceans from dereliction. He has been a pioneer in this field and his book should command the attention of everyone who cares about our planet's future.

What Charles Clover's inspirational book shows us is that if we replicate just the good decisions we have taken about the ocean we will bring back rare species, enhance the capacity of the ocean to capture carbon and have more fish to catch. In future, we have to protect more of the ocean, but protection will work for everyone.

How to Save our Oceans

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE** 
 
'Desperately needed' - Isabella Tree 
 
'I doubt any more important book will published this year' - Stephen Fry 
 
In this indispensable follow up to his acclaimed The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World, Charles Clover chronicles how determined individuals are proving that the crisis in our oceans can be reversed, with benefits for both local communities and entire ecosystems. Rewilding the Sea celebrates what happens when we step aside and let nature repair the damage: whether it is the overfishing of bluefin tuna across the Atlantic, the destruction of coral gardens by dredgers in Lyme Bay or the restoration of oysters on the East Coast of America. 
 
The latest scientific research shows that trawling and dredging create more CO2 than the aviation industry and damage vast areas of our continental shelves, stopping them soaking up carbon. We need to fish in different ways, where we fish at all. We can store carbon and have more fish by stepping aside more often and trusting nature. 
 
Essential and revelatory, Rewilding the Sea propels us to rethink our relationship with nature and reveals that saving our oceans is easier than we think.

Charles Clover

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