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'''David Mayer de Rothschild''' is a British billionaire adventurer and [[environmentalist]]. | '''David Mayer de Rothschild''' is a British billionaire adventurer and [[environmentalist]]. | ||
| + | David de Rothschild has a fortune of perhaps 10 billion dollars.<ref>https://www.thethings.com/the-richest-living-members-of-the-rothschild-family-ranked-by-net-worth/</ref> | ||
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| + | De Rothschild writes that he first "began to grasp the scale and complexity of [[climate change]]’ during a trip to the [[North Pole]]. ‘Standing in the midst of the Arctic, surrounded by 5.5 million square miles of frozen ocean, I felt like nothing more than a speck of dust on the endless horizon of Earth’s most raw, majestic and environmentally significant ecosystem."<ref>https://www.spiked-online.com/2007/07/05/the-planets-burning-lets-party/</ref> | ||
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| + | In the late [[2000s]], de Rothschild developed a mission to raise awareness of the [[Pacific Garbage Patch]], a gyre where plastic trash gathers, in which he invented a new form of sustainable ship in [[San Francisco]], called the Plastiki. In March 2010, de Rothschild launched the boat, a 60-foot (18 m) catamaran built from approximately 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and a unique recyclable technology called Seretex. Seretex, which was developed by de Rothschild and his team, was meant to reuse PET in a novel way, finding new uses for a waste product.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/oct/11/sailing-plastiki-david-de-rothschild</ref> | ||
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 David de Rothschild    (environmentalist, billionaire, Rothschild family) | |
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| Born | 25 August 1978 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Millbrook House, Harrow School, Oxford Brookes University, College of Naturopathic Medicine London |
| Parents | • Evelyn Robert de Rothschild • Victoria Lou Schott |
| Member of | Rothschild family, WEF/Young Global Leaders/2007 |
$10 billion Rothschild family fortune. High interest in the climate change agenda. | |
David Mayer de Rothschild is a British billionaire adventurer and environmentalist.
David de Rothschild has a fortune of perhaps 10 billion dollars.[1]
De Rothschild writes that he first "began to grasp the scale and complexity of climate change’ during a trip to the North Pole. ‘Standing in the midst of the Arctic, surrounded by 5.5 million square miles of frozen ocean, I felt like nothing more than a speck of dust on the endless horizon of Earth’s most raw, majestic and environmentally significant ecosystem."[2]
In the late 2000s, de Rothschild developed a mission to raise awareness of the Pacific Garbage Patch, a gyre where plastic trash gathers, in which he invented a new form of sustainable ship in San Francisco, called the Plastiki. In March 2010, de Rothschild launched the boat, a 60-foot (18 m) catamaran built from approximately 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and a unique recyclable technology called Seretex. Seretex, which was developed by de Rothschild and his team, was meant to reuse PET in a novel way, finding new uses for a waste product.[3]
