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OverviewMuch of what you’ve heard about plastic pollution may be wrong. Instead of a great island of trash, the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of manmade debris spread over hundreds of miles of sea—more like a soup than a floating garbage dump. Recycling is more complicated than we were taught: less than nine percent of the plastic we create is reused, and the majority ends up in the ocean. And plastic pollution isn’t confined to the open ocean: it’s in much of the air we breathe and the food we eat. In Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis, journalist Erica Cirino brings readers on a globe-hopping journey to meet the scientists and activists telling the real story of the plastic crisis. From the deck of a plastic-hunting sailboat with a disabled engine, to the labs doing cutting-edge research on microplastics and the chemicals we ingest, Cirino paints a full picture of how plastic pollution is threatening wildlife and human health. Thicker Than Water reveals that the plastic crisis is also a tale of environmental injustice, as poorer nations take in a larger share of the world’s trash, and manufacturing chemicals threaten predominantly Black and low-income communities. There is some hope on the horizon, with new laws banning single-use items and technological innovations to replace plastic in our lives. But Cirino shows that we can only fix the problem if we face its full scope and begin to repair our throwaway culture. Thicker Than Water is an eloquent call to reexamine the systems churning out waves of plastic waste. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Erica CirinoPublisher: Island Press Imprint: Island Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm ISBN: 9781642832891ISBN 10: 1642832898 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 22 September 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsTable of Contents Foreword by Carl Safina Preface: Out to Sea PART I: The Missing Plastic Chapter 1: Welcome to the Gyre Chapter 2: Below the Surface Chapter 3: The Ocean's Canaries Chapter 4: From Ship to Shore PART II: Little Poison Pills Chapter 5: Pick Up the Pieces Chapter 6: Troubled Waters Chapter 7: The Plastic Within Us PART III: People and the Plastic Industry Chapter 8: Welcome Chapter 9: Plastic and Our Warming World PART IV. Solutions Chapter 10: Cleaning It Up Chapter 11: Closing the Loop Chapter 12: Circular Thinking Conclusion: Giants Do Fall Acknowledgments Notes About the AuthorReviewsErica Cirino traveled 10,000 nautical miles to bring readers an up-close look at plastics' full scope, from the open sea to communities protesting more plants and more pollution. Cirino compellingly narrates the complexities of plastics' unfolding history, as communities, states, and nations figure out how society might change its relationship to this enduring material. --Rebecca Altman, PhD, writer and environmental sociologist Thicker Than Water takes you on an engaging journey through the many challenges of plastic pollution and diverse emerging solutions. Told through Erica's own personal experiences of epic sailing adventures at sea and connections made on land, it's a comprehensive guide to the plastic problem and what can be done to tackle it. --Emily Penn, director of eXXpedition As I travel around the world aboard SeaLegacy 1, I can see with my own eyes the crisis Cirino so eloquently describes in the pages of Thicker Than Water. The ocean plastic pollution problem is solvable and it will require us to understand how it came about and who the culprits are. Thicker Than Water is an engaging narrative exploration of an issue that affects us all. --Cristina Mittermeier, cofounder of SeaLegacy By moving the plastic crisis documentation from theory to activism and community impact, [Cirino's] book documents environmental injustices, national choice and their impacts, and the connections between racial prejudice and contamination, offering new insights into all these topics. -- Donovan's Literary Services In this time of multiple environmental catastrophes, you can superficially Google and despair or you can dive deep, inform yourself, and find your point of entry into meaningful action. Erica Cirino's Thicker Than Water very much belongs in the latter camp. It really is the book you need to read if you want to understand ocean plastic pollution but also be part of the solution. --Paul Greenberg, bestselling author of 'Four Fish and The Climate Diet' Author InformationErica Cirino is the Communications Manager of the Plastic Pollution Coalition and the author of Thicker Than Water (Island Press, 2021). She has spent the last decade working as a science writer, author, and artist exploring the intersection of the human and nonhuman worlds. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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