Pearl Jam Release Amongst The Waves Video For The Good Of The Oceans

Pearl Jam have just posted an official video for "Against The Waves'' off of last year's incredibly awesome Backspacer. Say what you will about Eddie Vedder and the gang but their care for the world in which we live in is certainly up there with the best the music world has to offer. The latest effort sees the band using the crisis in the gulf as a way to remind everyone to help and take care of those vital resources we collectively know as oceans. The video will be available on iTunes starting July 6th, with proceeds benefiting Conservation International's Ocean Campaign.

The band has eleven things you can do to look after the ocean over at their website, which you should definitely check out. That would be a lot of copy and paste to include it all so I'm just going to hit you with the intro.

There is only one Ocean for everyone and everything.

It is a finite, precious resource under tremendous economic and environmental pressure. Look after it.

Oceans...

- Cover 70% of the earth’s surface

- Provide up to 80% of the oxygen we breathe

- Are the protein source for 1 in 4 people worldwide

- Are home to 50% of all known species on earth

In summary oceans are important. As for the video it's a fantastic mix of the topic at hand with some live Pearl Jam thrown in. The video was directed by Ryan Thomas and Brendan Canty with water cinematography provided by Daren Crawford. Unfortunately we get some Debbie Downer at the end but it makes sense all things considered. Enjoy the video below then buy it on July 6th so you can have it on your iPod when you are cleaning up the beach. Good stuff.

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