Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans [NOOK Book]

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Overview

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 ...
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Overview

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 Plastic Ocean, Moore recounts his ominous findings and unveils the secret life and hidden properties 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. 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.


Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781101517789
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 10/27/2011
  • Sold by: Penguin Group
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 368
  • Sales rank: 134,136
  • File size: 2 MB

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    Posted April 15, 2012

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    Is hunting

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    Posted April 15, 2012

    HUNTING FORSET ONE

    A little creek flows on by there are pelenty of animals here.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 14, 2012

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    Cloudwish.... r u able to be picked up at least? If not... ur gonna die. *grabs cloudwish and brings the cat to result two*

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    Posted April 14, 2012

    Velvetkit

    Stoped in her tracks to see cloudwish. She would try to help but is afraid, remebering ehen she got stuck in one herself. She turned and went to get someone to help cloudwish out as fast as she could.
    ~Velvetkit

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 14, 2012

    Cloudwish

    Have you dug me out yet? I cant be taken anywhere until then...

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