Meet the Plastiki Pirates: David de Rothschild and Jo Royle:
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In this 3 minute excerpt of the interview, David and Jo describe their mission, and play stat attack on plastics. You can watch more excerpts of the interview and the interview in it's entirety at current.com/green.
David de Rothschild authored The Global Warming Survival Handbook, hosts the Sundance Channel's "Eco-Trip: The Real Cost of Living", where he investigates the life-cycle and ecological impact of everyday consumer products from field to shelf. He was also honored by National Geographic as an 'Emerging Explorer', The World Economic Forum named him a 'Young Global Leader', and in 2008 Clean Up The World made David an 'International Ambassador'.
Jo Royle is internationally recognized as one of Europe's leading female ocean yachts skippers. Jo's passion for ocean adventure has launched her into a professional sailing career, her accolades include being one of the few sailors to have circumnavigated South Georgia in the Southern Ocean. She competed in the prestigious two‐handed trans‐ocean race, the Transat Jacques Vabre, skippering the only all female team in the 40‐foot class. She is currently completing an MSc in Environmental Science and Society at the University of Central London.
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I am impressed by the letter of "the saving water". Thank you. David make a message to Asia.
As for David, there is an excellent assistant and is happy.
By the way, it is a story of the water.
Every resources are short in the present age.
It is the water that it is necessary to be above all serious to a minimum so that a human being lives and lack of the food.When there are about 1,400,000,000 cubes and the water of the Km to do on the earth, is said,; but in "97.5% of those seawater" "the fresh water is only remaining 2.5%". As for the most of fresh water, it is ice such as the South Pole or the North Pole ", besides, and the water of subsurface water and a river and wetlands is only 0.8% of the water on the earth. Furthermore, there are the most as subsurface water, and a river and the water of wetlands which we can use are only only 0.01%.
For shortage of water, 5000000-10000000 a year die, and, according to the investigation of the United Nations, 1,200,000,000 people do not have security with safe drinking water now.
And it is expected that water of 4,000,000,000 48 countries is short as for the current population in 2025 when 7,000,000,000 people, world population are to 8,000,000,000 people.We Japan environmental safeguard association does detoxification of most of the harmful exhaust from oil combustion.
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