The Oceans Are Emptying: Fish Wars and Sustainability
Raymond A. Rogers |
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The oceans, long thought to hold unlimited bounty, are emptying.
The Oceans Are Emptying is a powerful indictment of failed sustainability rhetoric and a wake-up call for global conservation reform. As international tensions rise and once-thriving fisheries collapse, Raymond A. Rogers exposes the hollow promises behind “fishspeak”—the bureaucratic language of sustainability that masks ecological failure and economic devastation.
Drawing from his own experience as a fisherman in Little Harbour, Nova Scotia, and decades of environmental scholarship, Rogers argues that coastal communities must assert local control over marine resources before they vanish entirely. In a world of deregulated global markets and political inaction, he asks a searing question: What must we do differently to prevent the same calamity now facing Atlantic fisheries from becoming the global norm?
This is a critical read for anyone concerned with ecological justice, food sovereignty, and the future of our oceans.
Raymond A. Rogers, PhD, is Associate Professor Emeritus at York University and a founding member of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada. He is also the author of Nature and the Crisis of Modernity.
1995; 176 pages
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