Ocean's End Chapter Summary

In the seventh and eighth chapters of Ocean’s End by Colin Woodward, the shrinking ice shelves of the Antarctic Peninsula and the management of fisheries and marine ecosystems are reviewed, respectively. The seventh chapter focuses on the retreat and melting of ice caps, glaciers, and other ice structures in Antarctica because of global warming and climate change. On the other hand, the eighth chapter focuses on the need for proper management of marine ecosystems, fisheries, and aquaculture, as current management is inadequate. The reviewed topics of the melting Antarctic ice shelves and proper aquatic life management are important because if the ice shelves are melting at an alarming rate, this could raise sea levels to a point where it would be catastrophic for everyone on earth, and if aquatic life is not properly managed, it could disrupt the balances in the various marine ecosystems on earth.
A major topic discussed in the seventh chapter is the melting of ice caps and glaciers because of the earth’s warming and changes in climate patterns. The effects of global warming, “are strongest in polar …show more content…
This is different from what the book presents, as the book predicted that “the [Western Antarctic Ice Sheet], WAIS will certainly not collapse during the next century” (Woodward 202). However, the chances of this event occurring has drastically increased over the past fifteen years, so there is certainly a chance of the WAIS collapsing in the next one hundred years. This issue is worse than presented, as “warming is at least twice [as worse]” than what was earlier suggested because West Antarctica “is heating up faster than expected” (Witze 9). This can then contribute to further catastrophic sea level

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