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

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  • čas přidán 4. 09. 2024
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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/3V7...
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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/3V7...
    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.

Komentáře • 43

  • @AndrewPolich
    @AndrewPolich Před 4 měsíci +30

    "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
      @gogogadget23 Před 4 měsíci

      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.

    • @LeSoleilRoyalXIV
      @LeSoleilRoyalXIV Před 2 měsíci +2

      To me, people who say its impossible are responsible for this, "it's impossible so let's not care".

  • @oppenheimerfaaaaaan5547
    @oppenheimerfaaaaaan5547 Před 4 měsíci +16

    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.

    • @leojlll563
      @leojlll563 Před 2 měsíci +1

      We do need to come together as a community. Thank you for participating.

  • @younghannibal7434
    @younghannibal7434 Před 4 měsíci +21

    This man is doing gods work 😊

  • @valeriebishop561
    @valeriebishop561 Před 4 měsíci +4

    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!

  • @SunDownProductions2
    @SunDownProductions2 Před měsícem +1

    Our governments should be contributing to this effort.

  • @dad102
    @dad102 Před 4 měsíci +10

    This kid is very impressive.
    Who is not impressed?

  • @rajkovicbosa982
    @rajkovicbosa982 Před měsícem

    Gospodin bojan slat je spasao vodeni svet od izumiranja bravo❤

  • @leojlll563
    @leojlll563 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I donate and spend my clicks on their video "like" buttons. We all can spare a few clicks for the cleanup, it is doing our part.

  • @Janet2508
    @Janet2508 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Boyan is a genius. 👍

  • @shephusted2714
    @shephusted2714 Před 4 měsíci +2

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

  • @asmakhaskeia7379
    @asmakhaskeia7379 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Thank you 😊

  • @rajkovicbosa982
    @rajkovicbosa982 Před měsícem

    Svaka cast gospodinu bojanu slatu za ovaj projekat bravo❤

  • @ahoo5753
    @ahoo5753 Před 4 měsíci +6

    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

  • @ab3000x
    @ab3000x Před 4 měsíci +2

    The Ocean Cleanup should contact "Green Vinyl Records" a.k.a. "GVR". The name of the company (with offices in the U.S. and The Netherlands) is misleading because the records are not made of PVC (Polyvinyl chloride) but PET or PETE (polyethylene terephthalate) a.k.a #1 recyclable plastic. PET is the most common thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family and the oceans are filled with it. GVR does not press PVC into vinyl records rather it uses PET plastic (recycled plastic is fine) in repurposed laserdisc injection mold machines. The process uses about 90% less energy to make a record because it doesn't rely on steam and extreme pressure but electricity and a polymer that has a much lower viscosity. All records are archival and can last forever if cared for and stored properly - PET ones may actually last longer. The fact that The Ocean Cleanup and GVR started in The Netherlands is a bonus.

  • @mellissadalby1402
    @mellissadalby1402 Před 3 měsíci +1

    In all truth, everything is impossible until it isn't.
    When somebody keeps trying long enough and hard enough and smart enough to succeed, then the impossible thing is no longer impossible.

  • @cpi23
    @cpi23 Před 4 měsíci +2

    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
      @cpi23 Před 4 měsíci +1

      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?

  • @ronkirk5099
    @ronkirk5099 Před 4 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @connecticutaggie
    @connecticutaggie Před 4 měsíci +2

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

  • @ToMPaSHKoV
    @ToMPaSHKoV Před 4 měsíci +9

    Capitalism enshittifies everything.

    • @cr-iv1el
      @cr-iv1el Před 4 měsíci +1

      It requires a moral framework.

  • @DLFfitness1
    @DLFfitness1 Před 4 měsíci +2

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

    • @LeSoleilRoyalXIV
      @LeSoleilRoyalXIV Před 2 měsíci +1

      Out of cars, in river, on the beach, in the moutain, in the forest, everywhere i went i could see people throwing or leaving stuff around, and when you tell them, they are angry or ashamed

  • @asmakhaskeia7379
    @asmakhaskeia7379 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I didn't know this exists while I am alive.
    Which makes it much more critical.
    I wonder what if countries share this responsibality in cleaning this trash content instead of political wars ?!!
    Developing sweden receycling methods where it is possible. .
    Making new Japanese plastical islands ..
    Why they do not really care about what really matters ?!

  • @Chronoir3
    @Chronoir3 Před 4 měsíci +2

    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.

  • @windlessoriginals1150
    @windlessoriginals1150 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Thank you

  • @philipleonardo798
    @philipleonardo798 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Why not the plastic industry to pay for cleaning up the oceans .They make huge profits to the expence of the environment!!

  • @user-wd7hs2ys8n
    @user-wd7hs2ys8n Před 2 měsíci

    Don't take Nature for granted

  • @drain_001
    @drain_001 Před 4 měsíci +2

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

  • @Silent_Summit
    @Silent_Summit Před 4 měsíci +2

    Wish i could help in a meaningful way

  • @jamiemorgan4146
    @jamiemorgan4146 Před 3 měsíci +2

    BRING BACK GLASS!

  • @lloyd0077
    @lloyd0077 Před 2 měsíci

    Shark movie brougth me here

  • @cr-iv1el
    @cr-iv1el Před 4 měsíci

    Show us the patch.

  • @JayStorm199
    @JayStorm199 Před 11 dny

    Pedro pascal

  • @buriedtoodeep1508
    @buriedtoodeep1508 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Legendary.
    Send the bill to Asia.

  • @SamLaney
    @SamLaney Před 4 měsíci +2

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

  • @lovewillwinnn
    @lovewillwinnn Před 4 měsíci

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

    • @daniellamcgee4251
      @daniellamcgee4251 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Nowhere in the Bible does it say to trash the planet, avoid all responsibility, and then wait to go to heaven. Your interpretation of the Bible is an example why people think religion is one of the worst things in world. We all need to grow up, value the wonders of ecosystems, and take responsibility for our planet home. Sorry to disappoint you, but increasing numbers of people are restoring the planet.