(http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/470)
About this talk:
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.
1 comment:
Uh yeah, when he says "discovered", he means, "discovered it himself". The NOAA knew about this 9 years before he did and 21 years before you did.
This guy's no Magellan. He "discovered" the "GPGP" on a trans-pacific yacht race and was so compelled by it that he started a foundation that he does not lead. (At least currently.)
Nothing against his cause, it sounds like a legitimate and serious problem, but TED distorts his role in this little case study ridiculously. Moore seems to be plenty SoCal BoBo and very little seafaring explorer.
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