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4.5
Dave Anderson has written a heartfelt cautionary tale about the looming environmental crises related to fossil fuel transport in the Salish Sea. The story centers on the Strander family who, while vacationing on a charter sailboat in the San Juan Islands in Puget Sound, find themselves in the middle of an oil spill that threatens humans, marine birds and animals, and their beloved orca whales. While the book is a page turner, Anderson slips in a lot of well researched facts and figures, as well as a cast of real local characters (e.g. the Orca Network) whose lives are dedicated to protecting life in the Salish Sea. This is edutainment at its best - a story designed to awaken the reader to the very real threat to all life in the Salish Sea that the proposed five-fold increase in the number of oil tankers carrying bituminous tar sand oil represents. The bottom line is: the economic, social and environmental cost to the bioregion would be catastrophic. Highly recommended.
