Chad Nelsen the surfer campaigning for plastic-free seas

Chad Nelsen is the head of The Surfrider Foundation, a grassroots environmental organization dedicated to protecting oceans and beaches. Its major programmatic work is carried out by sixty local chapters around America. They've more than forty thousand members, as well as affiliates in Europe, Brazil, Australia, and Japan. Its membership is made up of surfers, swimmers, divers, bodyboarders, kayakers, and beach enthusiasts who have learned to be effective advocates for the ocean environment they value.  At any given time, the Surfrider Foundation is tackling more than 100 campaigns across the country. The Surfrider network works to protect clean water, healthy beaches, ocean protection, coastal preservation and beach access for all people. LYRICS: Out there in middle of each ocean Is a high-pressure gyres with little motion All the rubbish collects there Swirls in from everywhere There they form a plastic sea The bad news is the problems getting smaller As the pieces become too small to collect from a trawler Just because plastic don't break down Doesn't mean it can't be ground Now everywhere's the plastic sea    The process has already long begun And soon there will be more plastic than plankton It works its way up the food chain And makes a home in your brain Welcome to the plastic sea So don't be surprised when the next time you gut a fish And find it its stomach filled with plastic bits All the chemicals in its flesh That soon you will digest As you eat the plastic sea They're already discussing the possibility Of how it affects our virility They said there wasn't proof Until nobody can reproduce   Of course it was the plastic sea And they say there's no reversal  And it's only going to get worse so Better keep your DNA on ice And then as the sea levels rise Keep your eggs and your sperm held high Don't use an oil-based lube Store them in a glass test tube As you wade into the plastic sea And then in 10,000 years time They dig down to the plastic line We got what we deserved But at least we are preserved Perfectly in the plastic sea Perfectly in the plastic sea Forever in the sea Forever in the sea