What do you think?
Rate this book
This Will Work: Creating a Global High Seas Marine Preserve to Save the Ocean's Wildlife
Are you tired of watching our beautiful planet drown in garbage, poisoned oceans, and climate chaos?
This Will Work is a bold, practical policy book that calls on every reader to channel their outrage into real solutions that protect our oceans, land, and future generations.
Drawing on decades of research and global environmental advocacy, Danny Quintana lays out how wasteful consumerism, single use plastics, and corporate greed have trashed the planet and how we can fight back. From cleaning up our oceans and shifting global diets to pushing for a Global High Seas Marine Preserve and holding polluters accountable, this book breaks complex environmental issues down into a roadmap for action.
Part passionate wake up call, part practical guide, This Will Work explains why plastic pollution threatens all life on Earth and what international law can do about it. It shows how everyday people can drive change through economic choices and political pressure. It makes clear why cleaning up the environment means millions of new jobs, healthier communities, and a sustainable future for our kids.
Quintana’s message is We all made this mess. We all can fix it.
Whether you are an environmentalist, student, policy maker, or just someone who cares about the world we leave behind, this book will inspire you to roll up your sleeves and help make real change.
This Will Work is a bold, practical policy book that calls on every reader to channel their outrage into real solutions that protect our oceans, land, and future generations.
Drawing on decades of research and global environmental advocacy, Danny Quintana lays out how wasteful consumerism, single use plastics, and corporate greed have trashed the planet and how we can fight back. From cleaning up our oceans and shifting global diets to pushing for a Global High Seas Marine Preserve and holding polluters accountable, this book breaks complex environmental issues down into a roadmap for action.
Part passionate wake up call, part practical guide, This Will Work explains why plastic pollution threatens all life on Earth and what international law can do about it. It shows how everyday people can drive change through economic choices and political pressure. It makes clear why cleaning up the environment means millions of new jobs, healthier communities, and a sustainable future for our kids.
Quintana’s message is We all made this mess. We all can fix it.
Whether you are an environmentalist, student, policy maker, or just someone who cares about the world we leave behind, this book will inspire you to roll up your sleeves and help make real change.
316 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 3, 2025
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews
July 24, 2025
Danny Quintana is a Crusader for the Oceans, This Book is Intellectual & Compelling
Danny Quintana's latest book, 'This Will Work: Creating a Global High Seas Preserve to Save the Ocean's Wildlife,' offers a solid game plan for making sure we do not kill the oceans completely. His previous books also focused on ecology and space issues, but everything always pointed back to the central issue of trying to prevent wholesale environmental destruction. By no means an environmental zealot, Quintana knows that there has to be a balance between providing for human needs and keeping the means of survival viable for as many as possible. Danny says technology is a big key, and I agree wholeheartedly.
What he never loses sight of is that human beings are greedy and flawed, and the systems they create can be unfair and destructive. That being said, they are also kind, generous and high minded. He wants to find that balance. Early in the book he focuses on diet and the nature of where our food comes from, historically and present day. And this is a good starting point because it plays into habits of consumption, how certain foods are bad for us and add up to huge health care expenditures, and how creating, or manufacturing, certain foods contributes to environmental degradation. This also plays into the pharma industry, but you have to get the book to know more.
But the main part is plastics, a plague that is difficult combat but one which must be addressed. He cites that five main countries, all in Asia, are the main ocean plastic polluters in the world. They have zero governmental control and no desire to organize and/or implement controls to stop this brand of pollution. What to do? Danny Quintana says the developed world must force compliance through economic punishment, seeing it as the only way to correct their egregious behavior.
There is so much more to this book that one must digest it numerous times, so to speak. We can make 'This Work' and I believe in Danny's message of Hope.
Danny Quintana's latest book, 'This Will Work: Creating a Global High Seas Preserve to Save the Ocean's Wildlife,' offers a solid game plan for making sure we do not kill the oceans completely. His previous books also focused on ecology and space issues, but everything always pointed back to the central issue of trying to prevent wholesale environmental destruction. By no means an environmental zealot, Quintana knows that there has to be a balance between providing for human needs and keeping the means of survival viable for as many as possible. Danny says technology is a big key, and I agree wholeheartedly.
What he never loses sight of is that human beings are greedy and flawed, and the systems they create can be unfair and destructive. That being said, they are also kind, generous and high minded. He wants to find that balance. Early in the book he focuses on diet and the nature of where our food comes from, historically and present day. And this is a good starting point because it plays into habits of consumption, how certain foods are bad for us and add up to huge health care expenditures, and how creating, or manufacturing, certain foods contributes to environmental degradation. This also plays into the pharma industry, but you have to get the book to know more.
But the main part is plastics, a plague that is difficult combat but one which must be addressed. He cites that five main countries, all in Asia, are the main ocean plastic polluters in the world. They have zero governmental control and no desire to organize and/or implement controls to stop this brand of pollution. What to do? Danny Quintana says the developed world must force compliance through economic punishment, seeing it as the only way to correct their egregious behavior.
There is so much more to this book that one must digest it numerous times, so to speak. We can make 'This Work' and I believe in Danny's message of Hope.
July 19, 2025
In 2023 I picked up Danny Quintana's book, 'Space and Ocean Exploration as the Alternative to WWIII,' and was impressed with the intense research that went into an important book. His new book, 'This Will Work: Creating a Global High Seas Marine Preserve to Save the Ocean's Wildlife,' is a culmination of decades of tireless, and sometimes depressing, altruistic work. When one fights and fights a losing battle, it can be disheartening, but there are also reasons for hope as technology and progress are ever present. Danny is not giving up, and neither should anyone else.
An attorney, Danny has focused his considerable talents on the oceans and thus created a book that will cause the reader to want to help. His non-profit organization has been dedicated to creating a Global Marine Preserve by virtue of amending the Laws of the Seas Treaty, but obviously there are many countries and organizations who have no interest in such activities.
Here is food for thought, so to speak, from his book:
"Humans are killing the marine life with garbage. According to the World Wildlife Fund, over 100,000 marine mammals die every year from consuming plastic. I think that figure is too low. It has to be much more than 100,000. Look at all of the mammals that are constantly washing up on shore. Killing the marine life has long term repercussions for the entire planet. Marine mammals cannot differentiate plastic floating on the oceans with food. Plastic and garbage are new to the oceans. A plastic bag looks like a jellyfish to a sea turtle. The small bits of garbage floating on top of the water can easily be confused for a variety of small creatures, all eaten by the larger animals. When the sea creatures eat plastics and other garbage, their intestines clog and they starve to death."
He cites a number of the worst countries and strongly urges their trading partners to lean on them for change. This is a must-read book for those seeking to preserve our oceans and ourselves.
An attorney, Danny has focused his considerable talents on the oceans and thus created a book that will cause the reader to want to help. His non-profit organization has been dedicated to creating a Global Marine Preserve by virtue of amending the Laws of the Seas Treaty, but obviously there are many countries and organizations who have no interest in such activities.
Here is food for thought, so to speak, from his book:
"Humans are killing the marine life with garbage. According to the World Wildlife Fund, over 100,000 marine mammals die every year from consuming plastic. I think that figure is too low. It has to be much more than 100,000. Look at all of the mammals that are constantly washing up on shore. Killing the marine life has long term repercussions for the entire planet. Marine mammals cannot differentiate plastic floating on the oceans with food. Plastic and garbage are new to the oceans. A plastic bag looks like a jellyfish to a sea turtle. The small bits of garbage floating on top of the water can easily be confused for a variety of small creatures, all eaten by the larger animals. When the sea creatures eat plastics and other garbage, their intestines clog and they starve to death."
He cites a number of the worst countries and strongly urges their trading partners to lean on them for change. This is a must-read book for those seeking to preserve our oceans and ourselves.
August 6, 2025
Learn About Creating the ‘Global High Seas Marine Preserve’ to Save the Oceans
Have you ever heard of the ‘Global High Seas Marine Preserve?’ Well, you should know all about what Danny Quintana—author, environmental activist and lawyer—has seriously proposed in his new book, ‘This Will Work.’ But while the focus is on the oceans, that is only a beginning and end because the book centers on looking at the nature of our consumption, government institutions, private companies, societies, beliefs, healthcare, diets, food sources, transportation, way of life and history.
Danny intellectually and systematically educates the reader so that the end-game, that of saving the oceans, can rightly be viewed as an urgent, practical and necessary goal.
For example, something I was talking about with my teenage daughter recently, was how we grew up witnessing and hearing about above ground nuclear bomb testing in Nevada and other places around the world. Looking back, what appeared normal in the Cold War now is viewed as psychotic and crazy, and, as Danny wrote, it was an “environmental and healthcare disaster.” He uses this as a clear test case of our ability to “change behavior” in the face of obvious evidence that it was a “clear and present danger to human and animal life on our small planet.”
Extrapolating this out to our situation with the use of plastic in our daily lives and ending up in the oceans, it is clear something must be done. But this is a complex problem because it appears the poorer countries are the most likely to discard plastic into the oceans, thus making it incumbent on the manufacturing nations to take a strong hand in altering this state of affairs. Additionally, it appears plastic has other problems as well.
This is just a small snapshot of so much to be learned from Danny Quintana’s great book, one that is important and vital for our times.
Have you ever heard of the ‘Global High Seas Marine Preserve?’ Well, you should know all about what Danny Quintana—author, environmental activist and lawyer—has seriously proposed in his new book, ‘This Will Work.’ But while the focus is on the oceans, that is only a beginning and end because the book centers on looking at the nature of our consumption, government institutions, private companies, societies, beliefs, healthcare, diets, food sources, transportation, way of life and history.
Danny intellectually and systematically educates the reader so that the end-game, that of saving the oceans, can rightly be viewed as an urgent, practical and necessary goal.
For example, something I was talking about with my teenage daughter recently, was how we grew up witnessing and hearing about above ground nuclear bomb testing in Nevada and other places around the world. Looking back, what appeared normal in the Cold War now is viewed as psychotic and crazy, and, as Danny wrote, it was an “environmental and healthcare disaster.” He uses this as a clear test case of our ability to “change behavior” in the face of obvious evidence that it was a “clear and present danger to human and animal life on our small planet.”
Extrapolating this out to our situation with the use of plastic in our daily lives and ending up in the oceans, it is clear something must be done. But this is a complex problem because it appears the poorer countries are the most likely to discard plastic into the oceans, thus making it incumbent on the manufacturing nations to take a strong hand in altering this state of affairs. Additionally, it appears plastic has other problems as well.
This is just a small snapshot of so much to be learned from Danny Quintana’s great book, one that is important and vital for our times.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews