Bøker av Elin Kelsey

A book for people who believe the planet is screwed, aka those with eco-anxiety who are paralyzed with environmental despair, or who are caregivers to children who feel there is nothing we can do to save the world.According to the American Psychological Association, eco-anxiety is causing PTSD and depression on a mass scale.Contrary to the prevailing environmental doom and gloom regularly reported by the media, the author provides an evidence based argument that hope for the environment is not only warranted, but essential to addressing climate change, biodiversity loss and the full suite of environmental crises. Kelsey started the popular #OceanOptimism social media campaign, which went viral with more than 90 million tag shares.

Personal, anecdotal, and highly engaging, Watching Giants opens a window on a world that seems quite like our own, yet is so different that understanding it pushes the very limits of our senses. Elin Kelsey's colorful first-person account, drawing from her rich, often humorous, everyday experiences as a mother, a woman, and a scientist, takes us to the incredibly productive waters of the Gulf of California and beyond, to oceans around the world. Kelsey brings us along as she talks to leading cetacean researchers and marine ecologists about their intriguing discoveries. We encounter humpback whales that build nets from bubbles, gain a disturbing maternal perspective on the dolphin-tuna issue, uncover intimate details about whale sex, and contemplate the meaning of the complex social networks that exist in the seas. What emerges alongside these fascinating snapshots of whale culture is a dizzying sense of the tremendous speed with which we are changing the oceans' ecosystems-through overfishing, noise pollution, even real estate development. Watching Giants introduces a world of immense interconnectivity and beauty-one that is now facing imminent peril.