I am told that large-scale coral extinction is one of the key markers in the fossil record of a mass extinction.

I am crushed, only two weeks ago scientists were sounding the alarm for this, one said she was 'sweating under water': that's how warm the water was. And still people don't get it, like Rishi Sunak, who allows renewed oil drilling in the North Sea. It is all so bad.

Sorry, Ruth, too little too late. You did your best, RIP.

Probably past time to stop all jet-based transport. How do we get from here to there?

this is devastating.

archive link https://archive.li/2m9JD

What's really sad is that there are people that love the warmer water even though it's killing the ocean. We spent a 3 day weekend in Miami Beach about a month ago and the wife just loved the warm water. It's now her favorite beach. I blistered the bottoms of my feet walking on the sand until I realized no one was walking barefooted except me.

As a kid I snorkeled reefs in the Caribbean, some of the most beautiful experiences of my life. Later in Florida I'd snorkel in the Keys until one day 20 plus years ago I found myself in a field of bleached corals. They were like ghosts. It made me so sad that I stopped snorkeling that very day. Now in my advancing years, I've already lost about 10 deciduous trees from my garden that were probably growing there for a hundred years or more. And I fear this will get worse before better

Very sad to see such disastrous environmental damage with no sense of urgency despite the fact that action of tomorrow deserved attention to be completed yesterday.Movement towards protecting environmental damage is just too slow and we need another Covid moment to react as human brain and human community wired for procrastination unless there is threat of survival staring right on the face.

How can people continue to be so blind to what we’re doing to this, our one and only planet? It’s as if they believe the consequences won’t affect them, too.

Sadly, apathy has no wake-up call. For climate, for politics and for humanity.

We’re in the apocalypse

this really hurts to read 😭 something about corals devastation gets me feeling really hurt