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Nothing worthwhile is easy. Boyan Slat describes the failure that almost doomed the project, and the media's glee at his near-demise. But then you see his grit & resilience on display. They've cleaned up an average of 750kg of trash each hour in 2023, and are accelerating!

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We spend billions on the environment yet can't clean up our oceans. @BoyanSlat & @TheOceanCleanup are singlehandedly solving this problem w/ an innovation mindset. I'll take a few tenacious builders over an army of bureaucrats & lawyers any day. Ep 69:

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Boyan is also working to capture the trash from the worst 1% of rivers - which causes 80% of the problem. He rebuts "degrowth", and discusses the Engineering Mindset vs Activist Mindset. Check out the full episode on YouTube and @AmOptimistShow

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