Release Your Inner Quixote - Thoughts on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch!
The Dancing Guy video taught us a lot about the importance of leadership and specifically the first follower. I also sense it taught us something about ourselves. The guy who first started dancing certainly was letting his freak flag fly. Maybe it was the music or something else. I think it was likely nothing. It was simply what he wanted to do. See the video here.
Real or perceived, people say, believe, do, and act in certain ways. This is likely spurred from somewhere deep inside us, in the code that makes us who we are. Combine this with the effects of the world around us and you have all that shapes our personality. As we progress on our journey something releases and we evolve and change somewhat then off we go. Some go right, left, up, down, good and bad.
What if you suddenly decided one day you just didn't care about society’s norms and values and you just did what you wanted? What if you released your inner Quixote and along with your pal, Sancho Panza, you set out to slay windmills and talk to donkeys? I say Right On! What a drag it is getting hung up on someone else's perception of what you should be.
Being different and being a leader are likely the same thing. Everyone is not a leader (though the Zeitgeist is the need for more leaders) however they are just not emerging fast enough in our changing world.
Consider, that we've got all the plastic on the planet that has ever been manufactured, most of it is in the ocean.
Dutch student, @Boyan Slat, developed an idea for a passive floating garbage collection device that wouldn't harm marine life. He did this for a high school science fair 3 years ago. After capturing the world’s imagination he now leads a company of 100 plus employees at Ocean Cleanup. His plan, over the next 10 years, is to reduce by 42% the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or GPGP, which contains millions of tons of floating plastic debris. It's painfully funny we have defined terms for our floating plastic trash, another common one is the Pacific Trash Vortex.
But, this rotating ocean current of marine waste has no bowl to flush down.
A pilot of his ingenious device is set to start in the spring of 2016 in the Korea Strait. It will be the largest floating device ever deployed. All marine life, and life on the planet, have a vested interest in seeing the test succeed. Consider that half the world’s oxygen is emanated from the ocean. That's one of every two breaths you take...the one you just took or the one you're taking now for perspective.
I don't think Mr. Slat is afraid of taking a sword to a windmill or to dance when he feels it. Here's to success with the test, Cheers!
My best, Chris
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