International Author Feeling Seasick

Rebecca Hubbard Marine Campaigner Environment Tasmania

Environment Tasmania is hosting a launch tomorrow (Wed) for Pier 9’s thought provoking new book Seasick – The hidden ecological crisis of the global ocean by Canadian author, Alanna Mitchell.

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International Author Feeling Seasick

Book Launch Highlights Oceanic Crisis

Wednesday 30 September 2008

Environment Tasmania is hosting a launch for Pier 9’s thought provoking new book Seasick – The hidden ecological crisis of the global ocean by Canadian author, Alanna Mitchell.

Globally the oceans cover 71 per cent of the planet’s surface and contain 90 per cent of the mass of life on Earth. While tremendous attention and money have been invested in saving the ecosystems of our land animals and plants, the gradual deterioration of ocean life has been happening in secret. Scientists are just beginning to piece together the growing crisis beneath the waves and its implications for future life on this planet.

Seasick is the first book to take the scattered pieces of this scientific puzzle and bring them into a cohesive story. It will change the way people understand the global ocean and its importance to all life on earth.

“Seasick makes it clear – our oceans are in dire straits, and unless we take urgent action now to protect our precious marine wildlife and environments, life on land will become very uncomfortable,” commented Rebecca Hubbard, Marine Campaigner with Environment Tasmania.

Alanna Mitchell is the author of the internationally acclaimed Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World’s Environmental Hotspots. In 2000, while working at Canada’s national newspaper The Globe and Mail, she was named the best environmental reporter in the world by the Reuters Foundation.

What: Book Launch & Discussion

When: 6pm Wednesday 1st October

Where: Flex.103, Uni Centre Building

(mezzanine level, nr Stanley Burbury Theatre)

UTAS, Churchill St, Hobart