![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not an easy death and it isn’t easy to read about. The author begins with that beached whale and discusses what causes mass strandings (no one is sure, if I recall correctly) and then describes in terrible detail exactly how beached whales die. Since I’ve waited three months to write this review, some details have faded. It’s a fair point but my rebuttal is that addressing human behavior is a long-term project but the whales need help now. I’ve discussed this with my husband, who brings up the point that I (and the other walkers out there with me) am enabling all the litter bugs to keep dropping their White Claw cans wherever they want since the beach is magically clean again when they emerge from their drunken stupors the next afternoon. Unimaginable numbers of ocean life die when they accidentally ingest our trash. I don’t want whales to accidentally eat the litter when it washes out to sea. I roughly translate that to “good enough but forgettable.” Yet here I am in April, going for walks on the beach every morning, mesh bag over my shoulder, picking up every tiny piece of litter I see along the water line. When I first finished this book back in January, I rated it 3 stars. When Rebecca Giggs witnesses a stranded whale dying on the beach in Australia, she sets out to research the ecological role that whales fill and their place in the interconnected natural world. ![]()
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