Our Sacred Ocean Is Suffering Now

In Our Sacred Ocean author Victor Hummert combines scientific data with moving anecdotes from his experience as clergyman, world traveler and activist, prison chaplain, and skilled poet and storyteller. While identifying global human-caused dangers to ocean well-being, essential to human and non-human animal health, the author most often calls on his twenty-year experience in ocean-sided Louisiana and specifically New Orleans and Lafayette. In the context of global warming due to...
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In Our Sacred Ocean author Victor Hummert combines scientific data with moving anecdotes from his experience as clergyman, world traveler and activist, prison chaplain, and skilled poet and storyteller. While identifying global human-caused dangers to ocean well-being, essential to human and non-human animal health, the author most often calls on his twenty-year experience in ocean-sided Louisiana and specifically New Orleans and Lafayette. In the context of global warming due to excessive fossil-fuel usage, he cites also technological trashing acidifying the ocean possibly beyond repair. Jellyfish he perceives as major contributors to ocean poisoning and extinction of fish indispensable to an adequate food supply for increasing billions of human as well as non-human consumers.