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Jeff Goldblum Says Oceans Are ‘Crying Out' for Help as ‘2 Garbage Trucks’ of Plastic Are Dumped in Every Minute

Actor and advocate Jeff Goldblum speaks to PEOPLE about helping save the oceans ahead of the United Nations’ World Oceans Day, which is on Saturday, June 8. An estimated 33 billion pounds of plastic enter the ocean every year, according to the nonprofit Oceana.

Sadly, he says, “The oceans are in trouble and face a whole bunch of threats from climate change and overfishing and habitat destruction and oil and plastic pollution and the killing of threatened species like turtles and whales and sharks.” “And I'll be darned if a couple of years ago, like you say, California passed the strongest plastic source reduction policy in the whole country." “Contact your elected officials who are working on the local, state, or federal level to make sure that protecting the oceans and addressing the climate crisis are at the top of their priority list,” he adds.

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