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What saddens me about this story when it first cropped up back in 2016 is how powerless I feel to be able to do anything directly. Rising sea temperatures is n
by kentosi 8y ago
What saddens me about this story when it first cropped up back in 2016 is how powerless I feel to be able to do anything directly.
Rising sea temperatures is not (as far as I'm aware) something we're "directly" doing, but rather the net result of collective actions by humanity world wide. We can't point to one person/orgainsation/political party/etc and get them to fix this.
The whitening of the Great Barrier Reef, along with the natural damage caused by immense hectares of open mines dug up across Australia is too abstract a concept for most city-dwelling Aussies to really care about since it doesn't impact on our day to day lives.
I wish there was something more we could do besides donating more to environmental charity x.
/rant
- pgeorgi 8y agocollect samples from the remaining reef (all over the place) and cultivate them artificially until the situation is sorted out? That's something we might be able to do on a smaller scale.
- pdpi 8y agoIt’s not just the reefs. It’s the whole ecosystem that surrounds them, which is much harder to replicate as a whole in captivity