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Randy Chatterjee's Blog – December 2014 Archive (1)
The Plastic Ocean: A Cry For Help, by Jak King
This is mirrored from Jak King's blog here:
I just finished reading “Plastic Ocean” by Capt. Charles Moore and Cassandra Phillips. Hard to say much else but that this should be the “Silent Spring” of our generation.
Moore is a seaman who has become an oceanographer and environmentalist. It was his voyages that focused attention on the huge amounts of pollution — mostly…
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