Jared Leto interviews Boyan Slat (Beyond The Horizon Web Series)

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The “Beyond The Horizon” web series focuses on the future of humanity with some of the world’s most interesting visionaries in science, art, technology and politics. In this episode Jared Leto interviews 21-year-old Boyan Slat, an entrepreneur who is developing technologies to extract, prevent and intercept plastic pollution in the world’s oceans because progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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