Cleaning Up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (With A Gigantic Net) | A Brief History of the Future

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Boyan Slat, the founder of The Ocean Cleanup, highlights that instead of waiting for someone else to solve problems, we should actively engage in finding solutions to the issues that bother us. Now streaming: to.pbs.org/3V7BRLk
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FUTURE
Ari Wallach explores the historically transformational moment we are currently living in, why it causes so many of us to feel overwhelmed and afraid, and how it actually offers unprecedented possibilities for new and exciting futures we can create together. Now streaming: to.pbs.org/3V7BRLk
Combining history, science, and unexpected storytelling to expand our understanding about the impact that the choices we make today will have on our tomorrows. Each episode follows those who are working to solve our greatest challenges. The series also features valuable insights from a wide range of thinkers, scientists, developers and storytellers including French President Emmanuel Macron, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, sailor Dame Ellen MacArthur, musician Grimes, architect Bjarke Ingels, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, legendary soccer player Kylian Mbappé, and more.

[@younghannibal7434]

This man is doing gods work 😊

[@borisgoykhman5547]

Donated to these guys a few times since they were just starting out. Very nice to see PBS doing a piece on this project. I will keep donating and encourage others to.

[@AndrewPolich]

"What do you think when people say what you're doing is impossible?" I mean, we're the ones who made this impossible amount of trash. We source the materials, polymerize them, mold them and distribute them. It's not beyond us to recollect them. Nice job ocean clean up 🎉

[@gogogadget23]

This is a con job. Those ships collecting the garbage are generating pollution far in excesss of what they're supposedly 'fixing'. It is sad to see PBS give their seal of approval to this fraud.

[@valeriebishop561]

Recently found Clean People laundry sheets. LOVE it after using for many months. NO huge gluggy liquid detergent jugs to throw away anymore for me!

[@dad102]

This kid is very impressive. Who is not impressed?

[@ToMPaSHKoV]

Capitalism enshittifies everything.

[@ahoo5753]

Restore my faith in humanity and iam impressed with that young man. But Iam still against plastic.as many things as possible should be returnable with a deposit

[@shephusted2714]

they should have giant trash compactor and containers and sort it when they get back - more storage, longer time onsite, more efficiency

[@windlessoriginals1150]

Thank you

[@ronkirk5099]

The key to cleaning up the pacific garbage patch is to clean up litter on land in the first place before it makes its' way via drainage ditches, streams and rivers to the ocean. The other effort should be to completely eliminate the manufacture of single use plastic and/or 100% recycle them.

[@DLFfitness1]

It is sad what we have done to the earth. Unfortunately I see people throwing trash out of cars all the time. 😢

[@connecticutaggie]

Is there evidence that the fishing nets are coming from stream discharge rather than ocean fishing?

[@cpi23]

while it's fine to do SOMETHING with the shredded plastic there's no way getting around that we need to stop consuming so much plastics all together. I've been following the ocean cleanup since the early years and while I still love the project it just reminds me of how we are avoiding taking the real and necessary steps as a species to prevent our ecosystems from collapsing further.

[@cpi23]

also: I want a youtube channel that just livestreams the interceptors that filter the garbage out of dense urban waterways and prevents them from entering the ocean. 1) it's satisfying to watch 2) it would raise awareness? Maybe?

[@Chronoir3]

It starts with us humans..... Seriously a non plastic straw on a huge plastic cup? Corpos would be fuming a campaign to end plastic happens.

[@lovewillwinnn]

It’s not within humans’ ability to resolve. Revelation 11: 18 assures us that it will be resolved though. 😊

[@drain_001]

Music is way too loud, voices just sound like mumbling.

[@buriedtoodeep1508]

Legendary. Send the bill to Asia.

[@SamLaney]

reminder that there's no such thing as plastic recycling. Certainly there is bad idea recycling, tho