I’ve been pondering the relative lack of impact on people of the coral reef crisis. Reefs have been degrading for a long time, probably ever since human populations became powerful enough to rearrange the landscapes near them or catch fish… Read More »Dragons and Tribes: more about communicating the coral reef story to the public.
Coral reefs should have alerted us by now By now, everybody knows that coral reefs around the world are being seriously degraded by the effects of warmer water caused by climate change. Occurrences of coral bleaching are far more frequent… Read More »How can we expect the average person, or even a politician, to understand what is happening to coral reefs?
The current kerfuffle over the expansion of the Kinder-Morgan pipeline that ships tar sands crude from Alberta to an export terminal on the coast of British Columbia is a sorry story. It demonstrates that most leaders seem incapable of looking… Read More »Our Human Condition – Trapped by the Familiar. It’s why Governmental or Economic Decisions are So Often Wrong when Environment is Involved.