Here’s a name you may not know, but you should – Boyan Slat.
Allow me to introduce him to you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-N9-g_IzAY&feature=youtu.be
Someone has to do it. That’s just it, is the first words he says.
This is a young man attempting to clean up our oceans while billionaires like Bezos, Musk and Branson send junk up into space to fuel their egos.
While brain dead politicians like Trump try to convince us there are no environmental problems.
But Mr. Slat can see for himself. He had this vision, this passion, to clean up the plastic from our oceans as a teenager, and with great tenacity is making that dream come true as a young adult.
He’s had to solicit funding from uber rich slobs who will only fund such feats if there is dollars in it for them. If the collected plastic can’t be recycled (and hence not generate any money) or the project fails, out they go. They could care less about the environment.
As Mr. Slat states, the answers to our problems is not to go back to what we were. Our technology has enabled us to live greatly improved lives and to live longer. We now need to use that technology to save the environment, and hence ourselves so we can continue making our lives better. Not only this, but to get to a point where we are self sustaining, so we no longer have to keep taking from nature – we are separate, and no longer causing such great harm. What an awesome young person!
We have so many uber rich people in this world who could fund such projects to clean our air, water and land and many brilliant minds who could put their talents to better use than designing yet another damn telephone.
The time for debates and another 500 page report on environmental issues is OVER. We have to stop listening to our politicians – this is the only thing they excel at – TALKING – endlessly and say nothing, and worse, do nothing. We have to be vigilantes now, like Boyan Slat and take matters into our own hands and save the world and ourselves, by ourselves.
That 12 year clock is ticking down.