David Mayer de Rothschild

David Mayer de Rothschild ( born August 25, 1978 in London ) is a British adventurer, environmentalist and head of Adventure Ecology, an expedition group raising awareness about climate change.

Life

Rothschild is the youngest of three children of Victoria Schott ( born 1949 ) and Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild ( born 1931 ) of the Rothschild banking family of England.

He studied politics and computer science at Oxford Brookes University and received a distance learning natural medicine at the London College of Naturopathic Medicine. In 2005 he founded Adventure Ecology. In 2006 he crossed the Arctic from Russia to Canada in about 100 days, which only a few people so far succeeded. This became the youngest Briton to reach both the North Pole and the South Pole. In addition, he was a member of the group could set a world record for the fastest crossing of the Greenland ice desert during the Dual crossing. In 2007 he received the GQ Man of the Year Award in the category engagement.

Plastiki expedition

For the April 28, 2009, the anniversary of the Kon-Tiki expedition, Rothschild was planning to sail a raft made of plastic bottles and recycled materials the Pacific Ocean from North America to Australia. By early March 2010 finally be catamaran Plastiki was completed after three years of preparation. On 21 March, at 9:30 local time, the Plastiki clock broke with Rothschild and his crew in Sausalito, California, to Sydney.

The journey of the Plastiki expedition should take about four months. Here also an expedition to the so-called Garbage Patch is planned. This Garbage Patch in the Pacific has reached the size of Texas. With his journey, he wants to demonstrate against the load of the oceans with plastic waste.

The waste is washed into the sea via rivers. In many cases landfills and illegal waste dumps have to be piled up along rivers, marshes or sea shores in the Badlands. 10% make the largest polluter of the fishery. Since they do not decompose plastic waste but only decay into smaller and smaller parts, they pose a serious risk to the fauna of the seas. About the food chain of fish, the pollutants of plastic parts also get back to the people.

On 27 July 2010, the Plastiki successfully reached Sydney, and thus ended her Pacific crossing.

Works

  • The Live Earth - Global Warming Survival Handbook, 2007, English, ISBN 978-1-59486-781-1
  • Earth Matters ... An Encyclopedia Of Ecology, 2008, English, ISBN 978-1-4053-1888-4
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