41 pages • 1 hour read
Hope JahrenThe Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Part 2, Chapter 7Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Part 2: “Food”
Part 2, Chapter 7 Summary: “Finding Fish”
The author begins with a discussion of the popularity of Atlantic Salmon in her now-home of Norway. Just as crop and meat yields have increased, so too have fisheries. “The story of aquaculture is simply that of meat production, only underwater,” she notes (60).
Salmon, once an expensive fish served only on special occasions, is now available even at a place like McDonald’s. Fishermen have learned to farm fish—a practice called aquaculture—to produce much higher yields than possible via traditional methods. In aquaculture, species such as Atlantic Salmon are raised in underwater cages, fed generously, dosed with antibiotics, and eventually processed for market. Seaweed is also farmed for fertilizer, food preservatives, and use in beauty and household products.
Part 2, Chapter 7 Analysis
With the exception of this chapter and the 17th, the ocean plays a small role in this book. This chapter is the book’s only foray into the marine environment. Although the global ocean occupies over 70% of the Earth’s surface, Jahren’s preference is clearly for agricultural-related science rather than marine. Jahren received her doctoral degree in soil science from the University of California, Berkeley, which may account for her focus on terrestrial environments and overland supply chains in The Story of More.
