Charles Moore and The Plastic Ocean

 

REMINDER:  Charles Moore will discuss the growing problem

of plastics in the marine environment February 29 with a

reception beginning at 6:30PM, the presentation at 7PM.

 

Captain Charles Moore Scientist and Activist Discusses "The Great Infection of the Sea" detailed in his acclaimed new book Plastic Ocean     Location: Olympia Center 222 Columbia St NW Olympia, Wa Contact: Susan Macomson Donations Welcome A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, and inspires a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global health crisis. In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu with the sole intention of 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 this presentation Moore will discuss these observations, what they mean to our planet, and his book Plastic Ocean. A call to action as urgent as Rachel Carson's seminal Silent Spring, Moore's sobering revelations will be embraced by activists, concerned parents, and seafaring enthusiasts concerned about the deadly impact and implications of this man-made blight. This event is sponsored by the South Sound Sierra Club Group with additional sponsorship from Environment Washington, the Thurston County Progressive Network, Move to Amend, the Black Hills Audubon Society, the Thurston County League of Women Voters, the Olympic Peninsula Surfrider Chapter and APHETI.