Anyone that’s snorkeled or dived 30 years ago vs now has seen the stark difference. Places that were vibrant and full of color are lucky to have shades of brown with very few exceptions. Coral is dead, dying or unhealthy and it so upsetting to see it even from a few years ago. There’s this movement of last-chance tourism around this as reefs begin to fade away into bleached deserts.
My only wish is that people had the ability to care and therefore “wake up”. Outside of 0.2% of the global population, they don’t and they won’t. Our brains are, overall and by mass majority, as dead as the reef is about to be.
Nope. People will ignore this. It was a good run
From a relevant article:
In March, the Great Barrier Reef Authority said that aerial surveys on over 300 inshore, midshelf, and offshore reefs confirmed that “widespread, often called mass, coral bleaching event is unfolding” across the reef. A month later, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) and the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) confirmed that the world is undergoing its fourth global coral bleaching event. It is the second in the past ten years. Among the 53 regions affected are Florida, Eastern Tropical Pacific nations including Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia, and Australia. According to the most recent report by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), the world has lost approximately 14% of corals since 2009.
“Save the planet!”
Naw mother fuckers, the planet is going to be just fine, it’s humanity we need to save. The planet will be around millions of years after we’re long gone.
Not that I entirely disagree, but we are also in one of the biggest mass-extinction events ever right now, so clearly it isn’t “just” humans that are affected.
