Will tropical coral reefs be the first ecosystem to be eliminated by climate change?
Thursday, November 23, 2006
"Blame Canada and España"
It may be nearly too late with regard to the campaign, but a cartoon from Greenpeace against bottom trawling is worth a look anyway (hat tip KT). Scroll down here to view.
(P.S. 24 Nov - the UN drive for a ban on bottom trawling has failed)
"Mike", the world's first hydrogen bomb, vaporised Elugelap island and other parts of the Enewetak atoll on 1 November 1952. In the half century or so since then humans have destroyed around a quarter - some say a half - of all tropical coral reefs, which are one the world's richest and oldest ecosystems and provide vital benefits in over 100 countries. Will the rest be gone within another fifty years - or less? So what?
Please note that this blog is now pretty much 'on hold', with only occasional updates since January 2008. For notes on the Anthropocene extinction and what comes next see The Book of Barely Imagined Beings.
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