Meditation on building a plastic-free world | Vasser Seydel | TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch

Imagine [music] we're in space looking down at this planet we call home. It's breathtaking. Now look closer.Visualize a multicolored film cloaking its surface. To the untrained eye, it's alluring. But really, it's an insidious cocktail of fossil fuels and petrochemicals.Simply put, plastic becoming the earth, becoming us. You see, plastic doesn't break down. It just breaks apart into micro and nanoplastics.And we're finding it where it doesn't belong. In 2022, on an expedition to Antarctica, I witnessed fir ...