[Coral-List] What do coral reef scientists perceive are the major threats to Caribbean coral reefs?

[Magnus Johnson]

Plastics + POPs? Invasive species?  These are two threats that, like climate change, we will struggle to deal with and should be on your list.

I think fishing, while it should be there, should be bottom of the list!  Also population growth (1 australian ~ 12.5 indians in terms of carbon emissions as an indicator) in my opinion is, like fishing,  one of the obvious rather than most potent threats.

What about global inequality?  How can you stop a man or woman going fishing on a reef to feed their children when the only alternative you can offer is cocacola-isation of their cultures and poorly paid servant labour to the fat western middle classes?



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From: coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov [mailto:coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov] On Behalf Of Ellen McRae
Sent: 17 April 2014 03:04
To: Steve Mussman; coral-list
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] What do coral reef scientists perceive are the major threats to Caribbean coral reefs?

Hello Steve and all
Nrs 2 and 7 are Disease in your list. Could one of them be replaced with Pollution (land and sea-based); also add UV/atmospheric degradation?
Best wishes,
Ellen McRae
FAMRACC
Belize




On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Steve Mussman <sealab at earthlink.net> wrote:

>
>    While it is certainly a challenge to clearly portray the synergy of 
> impacts
>    that multiple stressors have on coral reefs without confusing 
> people into
>    inertia, the issue is being greatly distorted by a deliberate campaign
>    designed to continue the debate based on promoting the false proposition
>    that there is a substantial level of scientific disunity. I donât 
> really see
>    that beyond the fringes and would argue that a clear consensus exists.
> The
>    eleven threats listed below seem to provide obvious support for 
> Alina's case
>    for primacy of human causation. So while people may be the 
> solution, they
>    can't possibly provide a satisfactory resolution without first 
> recognizing
>    and accepting their role as primary drivers of the problem at hand.
>
>
>
>    1.Ocean   warming   2.Disease   3.Ocean   acidification  4.Overfishing
>    5.Sedimentation 6.Coral bleaching 7.Disease 8.Coastal development 
> 9.Human
>    population growth 10.Algal competition 11.Laws and enforcement.
>
>
>
>    Regards,
>
>    Steve
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