Pinko Magazine Hedonism + Activism

Awhile back I made a joke about the Great Pacific garbage patch being a good place to take a sexy get away with Oscar the Grouch. If I had been more intuitive I would have written the post about David de Rothschild instead, because the banking heir and kids book author is taking a “I have so much money I just had to go” trip to the patch.

In addition to the floating trash heap, the noted socialite and sometimes bad boy De Rothschild will navigate other nasty and/or freaky locales like Bikina Atoll (home to nuclear fallout) and Tuvalu the sinking island.  And while bringing attention to environmental disasters is super noble and something we can support, it doesn’t excuse . . .

a) His Fabio haircut.

b) His scheduling the four month sea voyage during the Pacific cyclone season, which becomes more egregious when we find out that…

c.) his boat, adorably named The Plastiki, is made almost entirely of recycled bottles. 

The trip is the latest from Adventure Ecology, De Rothschild’s  organization that mounts ambitious expeditions in the name of environmental awareness for kids. Even though the environmentalist explorer is having way to much fun and makes way too much money and has bad hair and dreamy eyes it’s good to see someone finally use their yacht for a good cause. And even though the venerable and highly trafficked Pinko Magazine covered it, most people still don’t know that there is a landfill twice the size of Texas swirling around the Pacific, an issue that can use the attention before it kills us all.

About The Author - Dinelle is an import to New York from the more green, but less hedonistic city of San Francisco. She recently dropped her delusions of "freelance writing" right out of college and got an internship at The Nation. Where she does stuff for them for free (almost). She wants to save the world, but also loves expensive puppies and can't help but feel the two can't be reconciled. - Visit Dinelle's site.