If they exist, the gods are maliciously cruel to us lowly humans. Facing a slow but existential series of environmental changes due to our own unthinking misuse of the planet, we are being distracted by lesser but more immediate crises. … Read More »Climate Change Does Not Wait For Us to Pay Attention (and IPCC Needs to do a Better Job at Raising Our Concern)
You’ve all heard that coral reefs are being seriously degraded by climate change and other human interference; that they are on their way out and could be gone globally by mid-century. You’ve also likely heard of amazing new technologies to… Read More »Coral Reefs – Reality vs Curation, Reliability, Greenwashing, Pollyanna Media, and Our Own Irrational Perception of the World.
I was on the edge of an on-line conversation recently. A small group of coral reef scientists were discussing what we should call coral reefs after they have been degraded. Sounds trivial, but this was a serious conversation – science… Read More »Have We Come to Accept the Anthropocene and All it Will Bring?