This is a super cool book for anyone who like marine biology, history, economics, or just weird facts.
"Whatever steps are taken, one of the greatest obstacles to restoring cod stocks off the coast of Newfoundland is an almost pathological collective denial of what has happened. Newfoundlanders seem prepared to believe anything other than that they have killed off nature's bounty. One Canadian journalist published an article pointing out that cod disappeared from Newfoundland at about the same time that stocks started rebuilding in Norway. Clearly, the northern stock had packed up and migrated to Norway. Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There's the natural world and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he's a ferocious predator, that too is a part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, then something more adaptable will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works."
I see so many parallels with this simple passage and people in denial about global climate change.
