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Charles Moore: Sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Uploaded by on Apr 17, 2009

Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.

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  • Thats whats really gonna kill us. Overpopulation. We currently are expecting the 7 billionth person to be born. More people means consuming more food and more resources. Poorer countries would seek shelter in richer countries and a massive cycle begins

  • Damned be the single-use plastics!

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  • plastiki.com

  • Quit drinking bottled water. Buy a bottle and learn to use it. We are the problem, not the plastic.

    Check this out.

    

  • this video will be my homework

  • @HealyHQ same

  • Ben 10 brought me here. This is sad. :/

  • That's a fucking sad story

  • People are just basically to lazy and arrogant to keep trash in their car until they get home to dispose of it properly and unfortunately world leaders do not get involved BECAUSE it is not POLITICALLY advantageous for them to do so. Soo on it goes

  • Thumbs Up if you came here from Japan Quake trash video!

  • hi mr huston

  • Lakeside class of 2016!

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