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Jacques Cousteau ,the Human ,the Orchid and the Octopus

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Submitted by jstack6 on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 09:02.

   I learned so many thing about Jacques that I never knew before.

He wanted to become a pilot but was almost killed in a car accident.

The French navy gave him the chance to learn and explore.

The so called vast Oceans are only 1/ 640th of the earth. Of that only 1 % has life and is drinkable.

The Air around us is also very fragile. We only have a 4 mile are of usable air around the Earth. Higher is much to thin to support life.

Nuclear has safety concerns that he would never take and he had gone places and taken risk more than anyone on the Earth. He gives great examples of the safety concerns and accidents at Nuclear locations.

He also tells about the high risk of oil drilling. It is happening more and more in deeper seas. He says it is already a disaster and more is coming.  

He questions how we can not speak up to the environmental damage that has and is being done ! He tells that if we keep silent we are just as much at fault as the people making the pollution. We much speak up ! 

Author:

Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein

Publisher:

Bloomsbury

Copyright:

2007

ISBN:

333.9516

Pages:

305

Price:

25

Rating:

10

Synopsis:

This was an amazing evironmental book.  It tells about how Jacques Cousteau first got interested in diving and underwater research. He also invented many underwater technology ideas like SUBA the self contained underwater apparatice used by all divers today along with the auqua lung and even underwater living stations and bathespheres. This paragraph in french below, in honor of Jacques , one of our greatest environmental hero's !

 

C'était un livre evironmental étonnant. Il indique au sujet de la façon dont Jacques Cousteau est devenu la première fois intéressé par la plongée et la recherche sous-marine. Il a également inventé beaucoup d'idées sous-marines de technologie comme SUBA l'art de l'auto-portrait l'apparatice que sous-marin contenu a employé par tous les plongeurs aujourd'hui avec le poumon d'auqua et même les stations et les bathespheres vivants sous-marins.

The most amazing part of the book is how he has seen pollution and it's affects underwater. How over fishing has wiped many fragile fish populations and even the fragile air we breath.

He also tells of the problems with nuclear power and how it is a rish we should never have. He gave examples of the accidents that have already happened and how we weere told they never could happen just a short time before.

Jaques even tells of the didsters of the space rocket challenger and how upset it made him. He knows the risk of exploring. He is very aware of how the entire world works.   

He is really brilliant with many true life stories that left me on the edge of my seat. Jacques and Ed Begely Jr would be best of friends and have many of the same clear veiws of how we should live.  

Table of contents:

11 chapters of facts and stories about our entire world and the Silent underwater world he knows well.

1 The Drive to Explore

2 Personal Risk

3 Public Risk

4 Irreplaceable Water ,Irreplaceable Air

5 The Holy Scriptures and the Environment

6 Saccage

7 Catch as Catch Can

8 Science and Human Value

9 The Hot Peace: Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Energy

10 Life in a Billion Years

11 The Miracle of Life: The Human , the Orchid , and the Octopus

 

Review:

 One of the top 5 books I have ever read !

   You will learn amazing facts about our world from this book. He makes Al Gore look like an amature. He covers the air, water and energy.

   We loved this book so much we bought a copy for a gift to our science teacher mother in law. She will love it.

 

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Re: Jacques Cousteau ,the Human ,the Orchid and the Octopus

Submitted by jstack6 on Sat, 02/23/2008 - 22:40.

This still isn't listed under the book reviews. It's been over a month. Someone is asleep at the website !

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Re: Jacques Cousteau ,the Human ,the Orchid and the Octopus

Submitted by jstack6 on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 12:55.

Why doesn't this show up on the list of books under the option book reviews ?

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Re: Jacques Cousteau the Huamn the Orchid and the Octopus

Submitted by athena on Fri, 01/04/2008 - 05:55.

If onyone can write a better book than this on sustainability I will ride my bike there and take them out for lunch.

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