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An exciting profile of any activist scientist's unorthodox struggle in the growing activity against plastic sea air pollution and of his expedition over the Pacific on a homemade "junk raft". Within the last several years, the news media has brought the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - the famous swirling gyre of vinyl litter in the sea - into the public consciousness. When Marcus Eriksen cofounded the 5 Gyres Institute with his better half, Anna, and set out to study marine air pollution, they found that the truth is even direr: instead of a stable mass of litter, they learned a "vinyl smog" of microparticles permeates the world's oceans, defying simplistic clean-up initiatives. What's more, these microplastics and their toxic chemistry have seeped into the food chain, intimidating marine life and humans likewise. Far from being a gloomy treatise on an environmental catastrophe, though, Junk Raft instructs the exciting history of Eriksen's struggle to raise understanding and solve the situation of plastic air pollution, contributing to a fast-growing activity to stem the tide of trash. Eriksen writes of his voyage from Los Angeles to Hawaii aboard his homemade "junk raft", and along the way he recounts the successful initiatives to fight commercial impact and demand that plastics companies take responsibility for issues they've created. Eriksen provides concrete, actionable solutions and an empowering meaning: It's up to striking, brash, unapologetically activist "resident researchers" to challenge the position quo with regard to the planet.
