#shipping Timeline

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what the heck is going on now?

#shipping #PersianGulf #StraitofHormuz #war #iran

lines of boats all going in the same directions on the outer side of the strait, the largest group heading NNE, the second largest heading NNW, both maintaining very straight (HA! STRAIT!) single-file lines.

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🛢️ 🍌 A nice review of Oil Beach has come in from Choice (American Library Association):

"harbors are regions of complex and global interactions between humans and their environment, complicating #biodiversity #conservation and restoration efforts... Highly recommended."

#Shipping #EnvHist @sts #STS @geography @commodon #Commodon #HistSTM #oil #energy #pollution #ClimateCrisis #ToxicLA #CounterPort @bookstodon

In this volume, Dunbar-Hester (communication, Univ, of Southern California) uses the industrialized backdrop of the ports in Long Beach and Los Angeles in Southern California to illustrate how US trade, energy, and transportation systems impact local and regional environments. The coastal marine environment in this region (San Pedro Bay) supports high marine and terrestrial biodiversity that port activities and regional oil extraction routinely endanger. Dunbar-Hester describes the impact of oiling and habitat destruction on local seabird colonies and commercial shipping on otters, sea lions, whales, and other marine life. These industrial activities are driven by the global economy. In one example, the specialized transport and off-loading of bananas drive demand for specialized ships, which, coupled with container ships and offshore oil production, create an ocean that is filled with sounds that can make communication difficult for marine species. Dunbar-Hester provides these and other examples to emphasize how harbors are regions of complex and global interactions between humans and their environment, complicating biodiversity conservation and restoration efforts.
Summing Up: -- Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals.-A. L. Mayer, Michigan Technological University

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