Pacific in Peril: What to Read after Visiting the Maritime Museum of BC's Exhibit

A selection of books inspired by the Maritime Museum of British Columbia's exhibit Pacific in Peril: Climate Change, the Warming Ocean and How to Turn the Tide.

Updated December 31, 2024
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Sea Change: Charting a Sustainable Future for Oceans in Canada
Sumaila, Ussif Rashid
Paper Book
As climate change, resource overexploitation, and pollution leave ever more visible marks, ocean ecosystems, economies, and people are all affected. With coasts on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic, Canada faces a formidable challenge in building resilient, sustainable oceans and supporting the...
Plastiki : across the Pacific on plastic : an adventure to save our oceans
Rothschild, David de.
Paper Book
Explorer, global green leader, and eco-TV host David de Rothschild recounts the extraordinary journey of the Plastiki, an innovative and mostly untested sixty-foot catamaran that floats on 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles. It was a voyage that took de Rothschild and a five-person crew 10,000...
Deep water : the world in the ocean
Bradley, James
Paper Book
"Deep Water is a major achievement....Bradley's skills both as novelist and essayist converge here to create this wise, compassionate and urgent book, characterized throughout by a clarity of prose and a bracing moral gaze that searches water, self and reader." --ROBERT MACFARLANE, bestselling...
What the wild sea can be : the future of the world's ocean
Scales, Helen
Paper Book
The acclaimed marine biologist and author of The Brilliant Abyss examines the existential threats the world's ocean will face in the coming decades and offers cautious optimism for much of the abundant life within in No matter where we live, "we are all ocean people," Helen...
At every depth : our growing knowledge of the changing oceans
Hill, Tessa
Paper Book
The world's oceans are changing at a drastic pace. Beneath the waves and along the coasts, climate change and environmental degradation have spurred the most radical transformations in human history. In response, the people who know the ocean most intimately are taking action for the sake of our...
The attacking ocean : the past, present, and future of rising sea levels
Fagan, Brian M.
Paper Book
The past fifteen thousand years--the entire span of human civilization--have witnessed dramatic sea level changes, which began with rapid global warming at the end of the Ice Age, when sea levels were more than 700 feet below modern levels. Over the next eleven millennia, the oceans climbed in...
Junk raft : an ocean voyage and a rising tide of activism to fight plastic pollution
Eriksen, Marcus
Paper Book
An exciting account of an activist scientist's unorthodox fight in the growing movement against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made "junk raft" News media brought the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"-the famous swirling gyre of plastic...
Urgent!: Save Our Ocean to Survive Climate Change
Watson, Paul
A Pandora's box of environmental disasters has been opened, threatening the ability of the natural world to recover and humanity to survive. From devastating fires and storms to the emergence of deadly new viruses, it's become impossible to deny the terrifying reality of climate change. URGENT!...
The Ocean's Whistleblower: The Remarkable Life and Work of Daniel Pauly
Grémillet, David
Paper Book
"[Daniel Pauly] is an iconoclastic fisheries scientist ... who is so decidedly global in his life and outlook that he is nearly a man without a country."--NEW YORK TIMES  "Daniel Pauly is a friend whose work has inspired me for years."--TED DANSON Daniel Pauly is a living...
The right to be cold : one woman's story of protecting her culture, the Arctic, and the whole planet
Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2017 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Now in paperback, one of Canada's most passionate environmental and human rights activists addresses the global threat of climate change from the intimate perspective of her own Arctic childhood

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