[Coral-List] now what ? RE: Don't be Such a scientist

[Todd Barber]

There are many ways to make positive impacts, no single individual is
going to be able to reverse the whole decline....but to use an old
expression if we keep thinking globally, but acting locally we can
make continual small improvements to our coral reef ecosystems and
hopefully as we gain more and more tools and more and more
understanding those continual small improvements will add up to better
habitats and ecosystems and maybe...just maybe..preserve some portion
of our coral reef ecosystems.  The point is to never give up hope.


Thanks,

Todd R Barber
Chairman, Reef Ball Foundation
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On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Sarah Frias-Torres
<sfrias_torres at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> In the wake of the David Guggenheim/Anderson Cooper 60 minutes, and the
>  calls for "Don't be such a scientist"...
> Suppose, as a scientist (or as a group of scientists) you have engaged the
>  public, suppose you have reached out to politicians, suppose everyone fully
>  understands the threat to coral reefs, species extinction, global warming,
>  etc. Everyone is all fired up to do something about it.... and then nothing
>  happens. Politicians don't take action.
> Now what?
> Perhaps it's time for lower trophic levels (=the 99 %) to do something about
>  it.
>
> Sarah Frias-Torres, Ph.D. Schmidt Ocean Institute Postdoctoral FellowOcean
>  Research & Conservation Association (ORCA) 1420 Seaway Drive, Fort Pierce,
>  Florida 34949 USA Tel (772)
>  467-1600http://www.teamorca.orghttp://independent.academia.edu/SarahFriasTorres
>
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