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Oasis Earth is a remarkable summary of the miracle that is life on the earth. At the same time, it describes how our ignorance is violating this phenomenal mystery, and instructs us as to who and what we need to become if we are to reverse our collective madness. --Paul Hawken, author of Drawdown and Blessed Unrest All plants and animals, including us, are connected and depend upon one water system, as detailed in Oasis Earth. If you protect the ocean you protect yourself. --Jean-Michel Cousteau, President of Ocean Futures Society Inc. Steiner shows clearly what is needed to move from the destruction and excess of the Anthropocene to the resilience and stability of the 'Ecocene'. Read this book. Be alarmed. Then take action. --Mark Brooks, WWF-Canada The window of opportunity is closing. What we do, or fail to do, in the next decade will determine the fate of life on Earth and human civilization. Oasis Earth illuminates the way forward with the light of beauty, reason and hope. --Kieran Suckling, Executive Director, Center for Biological Diversity The book is a fiery call to save the planet. The appeal is based on a deep understanding of the material and spiritual aspects of the global environmental crisis and on faith in triumph of the human mind. --Sergey Kuratov, Ecological Society Green Salvation, Kazakhstan

Oasis Earth is a remarkable summary of the miracle that is life on the earth. At the same time, it describes how our ignorance is violating this phenomenal mystery, and instructs us as to who and what we need to become if we are to reverse our collective madness. --Paul Hawken, author of Drawdown and Blessed Unrest All plants and animals, including us, are connected and depend upon one water system, as detailed in Oasis Earth. If you protect the ocean you protect yourself. --Jean-Michel Cousteau, President of Ocean Futures Society Inc. Steiner shows clearly what is needed to move from the destruction and excess of the Anthropocene to the resilience and stability of the 'Ecocene'. Read this book. Be alarmed. Then take action. --Mark Brooks, WWF-Canada The window of opportunity is closing. What we do, or fail to do, in the next decade will determine the fate of life on Earth and human civilization. Oasis Earth illuminates the way forward with the light of beauty, reason and hope. --Kierán Suckling, Executive Director, Center for Biological Diversity The book is a fiery call to save the planet. The appeal is based on a deep understanding of the material and spiritual aspects of the global environmental crisis and on faith in triumph of the human mind. --Sergey Kuratov, Ecological Society Green Salvation, Kazakhstan

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"Rick Steiner is a conservation biologist in Anchorage Alaska (U.S.), and has been involved in the global conservation movement for over 40 years. From 1980-2010 he was a marine conservation professor with the University of Alaska, stationed in the Arctic, Prince William Sound, and Anchorage, specializing in marine conservation, and worked on environmental effects of offshore oil, climate change, fisheries, marine mammals, habitat conservation, and conservation policy. After the university and U.S. government pressured him to restrain from raising concerns about the risks and impacts of offshore oil development, he resigned his tenured professorship in protest. He has authored over one hundred publications; written commentaries for many national and international media outlets including USA Today, L.A. Times, The Guardian, and Huffington Post; and worked around the world with governments, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and many Indigenous People's and non-governmental organizations in diverse regions including Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Pakistan, China, the Middle East, the South Pacific, Australia, the Arctic, Kazakhstan, and El Salvador. He has received several conservation awards, and The Guardian called him ""one of the world's leading marine conservation scientists,"" and ""one of the most respected and outspoken academics on the oil industry's environmental record."" He serves on the Board of Directors of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, and the Board of Advisors of The Ocean Foundation. He has delivered Oasis Earth: Planet in Peril as a public presentation for over 30 years, in many venues around the world."

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