The Seaweed Revolution: How Seaweed Shaped Our Past and Could Save Our Future

As described in BBC News & Time, “The potential of seaweed, or marine algae, to transform our world is enormous… An excellent book,” New Scientist, “The Seaweed Revolution: A New Hope for Tomorrow.” Seaweed thrives in water everywhere, from eternal glaciers to sun-warmed lakes, from salt-laden seas to the freshwater of our rivers. Yet, we only know how to cultivate a few dozen varieties at most. Incredibly diverse, seaweed could help restore balance to our ecosystems through a wide range of applications. It could allow us to better feed humans and animals, replace plastics and fertilizers, boost medical innovations, mitigate global warming, restore biodiversity, and support the economies of coastal communities where fish stocks are dwindling. Although seaweed has supported our evolution for millions of years, we have lost touch with it and focused our efforts solely on cultivating land. Today, the world’s rapidly growing population, coupled with climate, social, and environmental crises, gives us compelling reasons to reconsider this forgotten treasure. “This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about our planet and its future.” —Marc Linas, journalist and author of Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency. “Essential reading for anyone curious about the extraordinary world-changing powers of seaweed.” —Alexandra Cousteau, Chair of Oceans 2050 and Jacques Cousteau’s granddaughter. “Seaweed and algae have a key role to play in the solutions available to us, and Vincent Doumeizel’s Seaweed Revolution shows us how.” —Ambassador Peter Thomson, UN Special Envoy for the Ocean and former President of the UN General Assembly. “Seaweed holds the key to helping solve many of the crises the world faces.” —Carlos M. Duarte, Executive Director of the Coral Research and Development Accelerator Platform.