This isn't the discredited "bush tucker" days of the 80s and 90s, saltwater crocodile and red kangaroo are used sensitively upstairs on the Orana tasting menu or in the casual Street bar downstairs as croc dogs, hop dogs or carpaccio.
By briefly displaying to an audience just one day's crop including, say, drought in Australia, floods in Kenya, an empty dam in Pakistan, a toxic spill in the Yellow river and saltwater contamination in Haiti he can soon show how water may dominate if not destroy lives, especially in poor countries.Some of its most pernicious influences, though, never make the headlines.
The deepening threatens to send saltwater far upstream, into the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, and to increase the size of the oxygen-free "dead zone" in deep water.
Over recent years, saltwater crocodiles have proliferated along Guadalcanal's coasts and in the wet season, they swim up the rivers to places like this, occasionally catching people unawares.
There they recover in tanks filled with saltwater made from mixing the necessary ingredients with fresh water.
Meanwhile, the projected rise in the sea-level not only threatens the levees directly, but is likely to push saltwater further into the delta and affect the quality of the water for agriculture and drinking.
The hub of California's water system is a huge estuary east of San Francisco Bay, where freshwater from two of the state's largest rivers the Sacramento and the San Joaquin meets tidal saltwater flowing in from the Pacific.
If you thought the shark infestation was just a saltwater problem, think again.
A mainstream saltwater economist, of the sort Mr Kling would seem to distrust, would probably characterise the present economy in the following way.
It would be a mistake to pigeonhole them, however (not least since both have now moved to "saltwater" universities that are historically better disposed to government action).
Parts of the shore of Prince William Sound became "ghost forests", where the land sank several feet, causing tree roots to enter the saltwater and trees to die.
