Challenging and controversial investigation of our changing relationship with the sea and our coastline.
Richard Girling is a senior feature writer for the Sunday Times Magazine. He has been awarded the title Journalist of the Year for two years in a row at the Press Gazette Environmental Press Awards 2008 and 2009. He has also been named Specialist Writer of the Year at the UK Press Awards in 2002 and was also shortlisted for this award in 2005 and 2006. He has been a consultant to the former Department of the Environment and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and author of campaigns for the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE). He is currently a trustee of the Tree Council.
Girling pulls no punches in this passionate and blackly witty
expose of the problems that face us . . . We can only hope that
Girling's eloquent analysis of what is wrong might affect the
decisions to be made.
*CULTURE magazine, Sunday Times*
This is a vivid and devastating account of the decline and fall of
the precious waters lapping our coasts . . . [Girling] is an
extremely good writer . . . he also manages to weave a wonderfully
dry humour into the long and sorry catalogue of generations of
neglect and short-sightedness . . . This is a book to make you
think.
*Daily Mail*
Anyone who cares about the coast should read this book - before it
is too late.
*Nicholas Crane*
Scarcely pausing for one slow and adoring gaze across the Norfolk
coast he loves, Richard Girling plunges off from the first page
into the most brilliant and devastating attack yet written on
bungling, political weakness, incompetence and sheer slowness of
those who are meant to be in charge of the seas around our
shores.
*Evening Standard*
Richard Girling calls the sea our civilisation's "amniotic fluid".
His story of its violation by oil pollution, over-fishing,
climate-change-driven erosion and our belief that we have the
wisdom to "manage" the marine environment is shocking. It's a story
of arrogance, ignorance and greed, and in Girling's electrifying
prose it becomes a parable of wilful matricide.
*Richard Mabey*
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