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Ted Danson on the environment
Ted Danson with wife Mary Steenburgen; photo by Angela George (source: Wikimedia Commons)
Actor Ted Danson has been involved in environmental activism since the 1980s when he was star of the hit sitcom Cheers. On April 1st he sat down to talk with CNN about the reasons for his environmentalism as well as current topics including ocean acidification, the need for clean energy, and President Barack Obama’s recent opening up of US coastlines to offshore oil drilling.
The environmental issue closest to Danson’s heart is the state of the Earth’s oceans. In addition to the below video interview, the actor has penned an opinion piece for CNN Eco Solutions, which explains his passion and concern for the oceans. Danson takes up topics such as marine conservation, ocean pollution and government-subsidized overfishing:
The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, longlines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.
CNN Eco Solutions – Ted Danson’s green streak
by Graham Land
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