Alexandra Cousteau speaks at UCF environmental summit

Picture a future world where rivers have run dry, where quality drinking water is slim and where the preservation of the environment is no longer deemed important. These were several topics renowned speaker and environmental advocate Alexandra Cousteau touched upon in her lecture Tuesday afternoon in the Cape Florida Ballroom in the Student Union. Cousteau, granddaughter to the famous French explorer and ecologist Jacques-Yves Cousteau, spoke in a segment of UCF’s annual Community Summit on Environmental and Global Climate Change. Cousteau began her speech with an anecdote about her grandfather—the environmentalist, the inventor of the scuba diving regulator and the spy for the French resistance...

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