This is part memoir, part history, part fury as Hardisty recounts his experiences as CEO of the Australian Institute of Marine Science. Along the way, Hardisty clearly explains the threat of rising sea temperatures, the ways that clear science is obscured by politics, and the more complex issues around farm run offs. Someone primarily interested in those issues can probably find shorter form reads, however, and the real focus here is on the nitty gritty of managing science that becomes politicised. I did think the book would have benefiting from committing more explicitly to memoir - there is a brief reference to Hardisty's time in Ukraine which feels like it could have been a book - but I can see why the climate focus is too vital to shift too much away from.