an earlier version was previously posted at intlawgrrls.com
As an avid diver, I wanted to cry when I read last week's announcement from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) that coral reefs off the coast of Indonesia are being devastated by unusually warm sea waters. In what is being called "one of the most rapid and destructive coral bleaching events on record" large swaths of coral off the coast of Sumatra have died.
A world without coral reefs is too horrible to contemplate. Not only would our destruction of coral reefs completely violate whatever social contract exists between generations, it would leave the world a sadder, uglier, and much poorer place. We have to stop spewing carbon!!
continued at Daily Kos....
