Book Review: The Attacking Ocean By Brian Fagan

The book The Attacking Ocean by Brian Fagan is about how the sea is rising at an extraordinary rate and devouring our coastlines. Sea level rising is caused by many factors like the moon, the melting of ice caps and natural and human disasters. One hundred and fifty meters is how high sea level has risen since the Ice Age. The ocean is always rising its celerity is unquestioned by many. The ocean has shown its power throughout history one historical moment that frightened the world, I can recall is when in 2011 a tsunami hit japan 's nuclear plant. That nuclear plant leaked a lot of radiation and it spread. History will repeat itself until the world comes together and comes up with a solution to the growing oceans. The industrial revolution gave way for greenhouse gasses and the in these last few hundred years we have only pushed the acceleration pedal on our death.

If the ocean warms up than hurricanes can bring more force to the lands around it. Hurricane sandy and Hurricane Katrina and many more have shown us how much stronger and bigger these storms get each time. “When fossil fuels like coal came into widespread use it’s hard for us to imagine just how different the world was twenty one thousand years ago”(Fegan 6). Fegan refers to humans ruining our environment. He states that the emissions over these last few hundred years has added to the rising sea that 's attacking our low lands along the water. The emissions, burn fossil fuels that make the water warmer. The north used to be covered in so much ice the U.S and Greenland and much of the south on both sides had lots of ice. Water from the melted ice caps is just adding to the sea levels and the hurricanes are just moving the water into the low level areas and devastating