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How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans
Avery
November 2011
On Sale: October 27, 2011
368 pages
ISBN: 1583334246
EAN: 9781583334249
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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.
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