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8. Is the Future of Farming in the Ocean?

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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We Need a Blue New Deal

Brent smith was a commercial fisherman. Now he works as a shellfish farmer. His oyster farm was destroyed by two hurricanes. Warming waters in fcation are killing seed coast to coast and reducing yields. We can either build sea walls and flee the coasts, or we can be like wild.

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