A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his
shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and inspires
a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age.
In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu
returning home after competing in a trans-Pacific race. To get to
California, he and his crew took a shortcut through the
seldom-traversed North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a vast "oceanic
desert" where winds are slack and sailing ships languish. There,
Moore realized his catamaran was surrounded by a "plastic soup." He
had stumbled upon the largest garbage dump on the planet--a spiral
nebula where plastic outweighed zooplankton, the ocean's food base,
by a factor of six to one.
In "Plastic Ocean," Moore recounts his ominous findings and
unveils the secret life and hidden proper ties of plastics. From
milk jugs to polymer molecules small enough to penetrate human skin
or be unknowingly inhaled, plastic is now suspected of contributing
to a host of ailments, including infertility, autism, thyroid
dysfunction, and some cancers. An urgent call to action, Moore's
sobering revelations will be embraced by activists, concerned
parents, and anyone concerned about the deadly impact and
implications of this man-made blight.
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