183) Emily Penn: The root causes and effects of ocean plastic pollution
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Emily Penn is an ocean advocate and skipper who's spent the last decade exploring plastic pollution from the tropics to the Arctic. She's on a mission to inspire and facilitate a community of changemakers through her project eXXpedition and by training athletes and celebrities to be impactful advocates on ocean issues.
In this podcast episode, Emily sheds light on why people in developed countries can't just look at the primary sources of ocean plastic pollution stemming from 'developing countries' and feel that this absolves us of responsibility; the known and unknown health impacts of chronic exposure to plastic bits and their associated chemicals; and more.
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| 1:17.6 | You know, we have one ocean that we all share. And, you know, our pollution could end up anywhere. |
| 1:23.7 | And the impacts that we have on that ocean really do go around the globe. |
| 1:30.0 | That was Emily Penn, an ocean advocate, skipper, artist and the co-founder of X Expedition, |
| 1:37.0 | an all-female sailing voyage and scientific research mission, |
| 1:40.7 | currently exploring the issue of plastic pollution in the ocean. Stay tuned as we're about |
| 1:45.9 | to explore why people in developed countries cannot just look at the primary sources of ocean |
| 1:51.7 | plastic pollution stemming from so-called developing countries and feel that this absolves us |
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