Tag: forest networks

1 The Ocean Represents 99 Percent of the Biosphere Over the last years, I've been attempting to compose books that resituate people inside the interconnected webs of a living world. After checking out thick forest networks in The Overstory and challenging mass termination and ecoanxiety in ConfusionI understood that I required to turn my attention to the enormous wellspring of all life in the world: the oceans.Like many people, I understood from method back in elementary school that the oceans cover more than 70 percent of the world's surface area. And I had a common sense of their depth-- a little bit more than 12,000 feet. What I didn't value up until I began composing Play area was simply just how much habitable area that represented, compared to terrestrial environments.On l...