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In Let Them Eat Shrimp, Kennedy Warne tells the stories of communities and individuals around the world that are affected by the loss of mangrove forests. In spite of their ecological, economic, and safety value, mangroves are being logged for pulp, bulldozed for agricultural land, reclaimed for urban development or increasingly, turned into ponds for shrimp farming and other aquaculture. At the current rate, almost all the world's mangroves will be gone within 100 years. In a compelling travel narrative, Warne shows why mangroves are so critical to the lives of so many.

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Kennedy Warne tells it straight: mangroves are under threat. In his passionate travelogue, he covers everything from vandal monkeys to life on the shores of the Red Sea, chronicling the global fight to save the rainforests of the sea. Let Them Eat Shrimp is a cocktail worth savoring. --Raj Patel author of The Value of Nothing

Kennedy Warne tells it straight: mangroves are under threat. In his passionate travelogue, he covers everything from vandal monkeys to life on the shores of the Red Sea, chronicling the global fight to save the rainforests of the sea. Let Them Eat Shrimp is a cocktail worth savoring. --Raj Patel author of The Value of Nothing

Warne's writing is artistic (shrimp and mangroves are 'like a pair of orbiting stars, though one shines at the expense of the other') and the stories he tells are deeply personal, featuring a good blend of the scary (commercial shrimping will destroy the mangroves!) and the hopeful (but we can prevent it!), the mark of a high-quality conservation treatise. --Green Life (Sierra Club) An utterly fascinating book! The destruction of wondrous places doesn't make for a happy story, but in Warne's passionate telling, it's one you won't be able to put down. Instead, you'll come away from this excellent read determined to visit a mangrove forest and to say no thanks to your next plate of farmed shrimp. --Deborah Madison author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Local Flavors Telling the stories of people displaced by intensive shrimp farms in Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas, Warne provides evocative tales of economic disparities and disruption of local tradition. --CHOICE If the tragedy of stories of lives and livelihoods ruined by mangrove depletion haven't hit home by this point, the idea of $10,000 being wasted with every hectare of mangrove ripped up and turned into boundless shrimp farms should. --The Ecologist Kennedy Warne's effort to 'set the record straight' with respect to mangroves comes at a critical time and at an appropriate level to catch the attention of stakeholders, land use planners, and policy makers around the world. --Journal of Environmental Studies and Science Rainforests of the land evoke a lot more international concern, and Warne includes in the last chapter of his vivid and pithy book a vignette of a scientist glooming about the undeservedly low public profile of mangroves. Warne's book sets out to remedy this, but it's far from mere lecturing. Warne, founding editor of New Zealand Geographic, visits mangroves around the world and lets what he sees and the people he meets make their own case. The book is a travelog with attitude. --Science News Based in New Zealand, Warne is a journalist and founding editor of New Zealand Geographic. He offers an extended narrative describing what he learned as he investigated the profound importance of mangrove forests to the ecological balance of the areas near the ocean where they are located, and to the people who depend on that ecosystem. The story involves the impact of shrimp aquaculture and massive coastal development--both of which devastate these 'rainforests of the sea' and disable their mitigation of climate change through carbon storage as well as the protection they give coastlines in the event of tsunamis. --Reference & Research Book News Let Them Eat Shrimp lays bare the hidden consequences of everyday consumption, showing how Americans' eating habits are changing lives around the globe. Warne's narrative has staying power, but the worlds he captures are disappearing in the blink of an eye. --Wade Davis author of The Serpent and the Rainbow and One River Kennedy Warne tells it straight: mangroves are under threat. In his passionate travelogue, he covers everything from vandal monkeys to life on the shores of the Red Sea, chronicling the global fight to save the rainforests of the sea. Let Them Eat Shrimp is a cocktail worth savoring. --Raj Patel author of The Value of Nothing Kennedy Warne is a 21st century Lorax--he speaks not only for the mangrove trees but also for the disenfranchised, disempowered, and betrayed people who depend on mangrove forests for their lives and their dignity. Let Them Eat Shrimp raises a clarion call to action against those who continue to put profits before people and consumption before reverence. --Aaron M. Ellison Senior Ecologist and Senior Research Fellow, Harvard University

Warne's writing is artistic (shrimp and mangroves are 'like a pair of orbiting stars, though one shines at the expense of the other') and the stories he tells are deeply personal, featuring a good blend of the scary (commercial shrimping will destroy the mangroves!) and the hopeful (but we can prevent it!), the mark of a high-quality conservation treatise. --Green Life (Sierra Club) An utterly fascinating book! The destruction of wondrous places doesn't make for a happy story, but in Warne's passionate telling, it's one you won't be able to put down. Instead, you'll come away from this excellent read determined to visit a mangrove forest and to say no thanks to your next plate of farmed shrimp. --Deborah Madison author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Local Flavors If the tragedy of stories of lives and livelihoods ruined by mangrove depletion haven't hit home by this point, the idea of $10,000 being wasted with every hectare of mangrove ripped up and turned into boundless shrimp farms should. --The Ecologist Telling the stories of people displaced by intensive shrimp farms in Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas, Warne provides evocative tales of economic disparities and disruption of local tradition. --CHOICE Kennedy Warne's effort to 'set the record straight' with respect to mangroves comes at a critical time and at an appropriate level to catch the attention of stakeholders, land use planners, and policy makers around the world. --Journal of Environmental Studies and Science Based in New Zealand, Warne is a journalist and founding editor of New Zealand Geographic. He offers an extended narrative describing what he learned as he investigated the profound importance of mangrove forests to the ecological balance of the areas near the ocean where they are located, and to the people who depend on that ecosystem. The story involves the impact of shrimp aquaculture and massive coastal development--both of which devastate these 'rainforests of the sea' and disable their mitigation of climate change through carbon storage as well as the protection they give coastlines in the event of tsunamis. --Reference & Research Book News Let Them Eat Shrimp lays bare the hidden consequences of everyday consumption, showing how Americans' eating habits are changing lives around the globe. Warne's narrative has staying power, but the worlds he captures are disappearing in the blink of an eye. --Wade Davis author of The Serpent and the Rainbow and One River Rainforests of the land evoke a lot more international concern, and Warne includes in the last chapter of his vivid and pithy book a vignette of a scientist glooming about the undeservedly low public profile of mangroves. Warne's book sets out to remedy this, but it's far from mere lecturing. Warne, founding editor of New Zealand Geographic, visits mangroves around the world and lets what he sees and the people he meets make their own case. The book is a travelog with attitude. --Science News Kennedy Warne tells it straight: mangroves are under threat. In his passionate travelogue, he covers everything from vandal monkeys to life on the shores of the Red Sea, chronicling the global fight to save the rainforests of the sea. Let Them Eat Shrimp is a cocktail worth savoring. --Raj Patel author of The Value of Nothing Kennedy Warne is a 21st century Lorax--he speaks not only for the mangrove trees but also for the disenfranchised, disempowered, and betrayed people who depend on mangrove forests for their lives and their dignity. Let Them Eat Shrimp raises a clarion call to action against those who continue to put profits before people and consumption before reverence. --Aaron M. Ellison Senior Ecologist and Senior Research Fellow, Harvard University

If the tragedy of stories of lives and livelihoods ruined by mangrove depletion haven't hit home by this point, the idea of $10,000 being wasted with every hectare of mangrove ripped up and turned into boundless shrimp farms should. -- The Ecologist Telling the stories of people displaced by intensive shrimp farms in Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas, Warne provides evocative tales of economic disparities and disruption of local tradition. -- CHOICE Warne's writing is artistic (shrimp and mangroves are 'like a pair of orbiting stars, though one shines at the expense of the other') and the stories he tells are deeply personal, featuring a good blend of the scary (commercial shrimping will destroy the mangroves!) and the hopeful (but we can prevent it!), the mark of a high-quality conservation treatise. -- Green Life (Sierra Club) An utterly fascinating book! The destruction of wondrous places doesn't make for a happy story, but in Warne's passionate telling, it's one you won't be able to put down. Instead, you'll come away from this excellent read determined to visit a mangrove forest and to say no thanks to your next plate of farmed shrimp. --Deborah Madison author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Local Flavors Based in New Zealand, Warne is a journalist and founding editor of New Zealand Geographic. He offers an extended narrative describing what he learned as he investigated the profound importance of mangrove forests to the ecological balance of the areas near the ocean where they are located, and to the people who depend on that ecosystem. The story involves the impact of shrimp aquaculture and massive coastal development--both of which devastate these 'rainforests of the sea' and disable their mitigation of climate change through carbon storage as well as the protection they give coastlines in the event of tsunamis. -- Reference & Research Book News Kennedy Warne's effort to 'set the record straight' with respect to mangroves comes at a critical time and at an appropriate level to catch the attention of stakeholders, land use planners, and policy makers around the world. -- Journal of Environmental Studies and Science Rainforests of the land evoke a lot more international concern, and Warne includes in the last chapter of his vivid and pithy book a vignette of a scientist glooming about the undeservedly low public profile of mangroves. Warne's book sets out to remedy this, but it's far from mere lecturing. Warne, founding editor of New Zealand Geographic, visits mangroves around the world and lets what he sees and the people he meets make their own case. The book is a travelog with attitude. -- Science News Let Them Eat Shrimp lays bare the hidden consequences of everyday consumption, showing how Americans' eating habits are changing lives around the globe. Warne's narrative has staying power, but the worlds he captures are disappearing in the blink of an eye. --Wade Davis author of The Serpent and the Rainbow and One River Kennedy Warne is a 21st century Lorax--he speaks not only for the mangrove trees but also for the disenfranchised, disempowered, and betrayed people who depend on mangrove forests for their lives and their dignity. Let Them Eat Shrimp raises a clarion call to action against those who continue to put profits before people and consumption before reverence. --Aaron M. Ellison Senior Ecologist and Senior Research Fellow, Harvard University Kennedy Warne tells it straight: mangroves are under threat. In his passionate travelogue, he covers everything from vandal monkeys to life on the shores of the Red Sea, chronicling the global fight to save the rainforests of the sea. Let Them Eat Shrimp is a cocktail worth savoring. --Raj Patel author of The Value of Nothing

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Kennedy Warne is author of and founding editor of New Zealand Geographic. His articles have appeared in National Geographic, Smithsonian, GEO, and other publications.

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