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It is terrifying and sad to see the world I grew up with slowly ground away through negligence. As an eleven year old I went snorkeling for the first time in t
by stevecalifornia 11y ago
It is terrifying and sad to see the world I grew up with slowly ground away through negligence. As an eleven year old I went snorkeling for the first time in the pristine Caymans. In my short life-time (I'm only mid-thirties) I have seen the great reefs I once explored demolished.
I can't even... I am just floored at how quickly we destroy things that took ages to grow.
- sandworm101 11y agoWhile a shame, this sort of damage is not totally unnatural. Hurricanes have been decimating reefs for millions of years. A drifting tree trunk, at low tide in moderate surf, can do this much damage in a few minutes. The real manmade reef killers are chemical, not physical.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoTrue! Global warming/climate change is destroying vast quantities of reefs, yet people latch on to events like this.
- winter_blue 11y agoThis is really small compared to the systematic destruction of rain forests in the Amazon. I don't think you should be sad about something that was caused by an unintentional error, like Paul Allen's crash. What is right to be poignant about is all the intentional corruption-driven destruction caused by humans.
- dzhiurgis 11y agoIf you seen reefs at their pristine condition and see reef at most of the places nowadays, you'd be more indifferent to these news. I saw a live reef several years back in Egypt and it was a astonishing, beautiful and alive. After this I've been few other places and while there were some fish, it was nothing like that. Everything I saw is like the 'destroyed' picture in the article. I think such damages don't do much impact on these reefs as they are effectively dead anyway.