1.Why is it a bad fishing day? What is unusual about the location of the ship?

2.What has caused the change in the fishing industry?

3.What explanations are offered for the dead starfish, dolphins, otters, and sea birds?

4.What effects might rising levels of CO2 have?

5.Why is it easy to ignore the plight of the Amazon rain forest?

6.What problem does the bleaching of coral reefs indicate?

7.What destruction of nature does the author find close to home? What effects of this destruction does he see?

8.What feelings do the animals in a zoo inspire in the author?