[Coral-List] Why do so many people care so little

[International Coral Reef Observatory]

Great point. It is urgent to identify "who are those people who are
supporting the wrong decisions that destroy, degrade, pollute or dredge
coral reefs". It Is  not a personal attack, but a personal deffense to
improve Coral Reef conservation effectiveness.

Some confidential contractors and officers who are well-educated people,
have become deniers of local negative impacts as they are hire to support
unsustainable development to scale up their funding sources. They feel
aggresive and guilty so their argument in synthesis is that "global climate
change will kill coral reefs anyway sonner or later, so let us allow the
destruction NOW with megaprojects...meanwhile scale up the colonies
fragmentation of a couple of climate change vulnerable coral species to
speed the process..."

A hope is that the majority of scientists do acknowledge the failure of
promising to save coral reefs without tackling the local and global causes.
Let us join us in a stronger community based on the specific local facts.

Good to know that coral reef young scientists want to break the inactive
pattern and they also propose stopping the local and global causes
deteriorating the valuable ecosystem. They are the near future leaders; let
us start to listen them !!

Happy Earth Day /Month / Year

Nohora Galvis
International Coral Reef Observatory, ICRO
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El miércoles, 19 de abril de 2023, Ehsan KAYAL via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> escribió:

> It is inaccurate to talk in such general terms (i.e., people), when the
> will of the majority of humans has no impact on decisions with planetary
> impacts. In fact, it is more accurate to wonder:
> - why educated people in wealthy countries continue to look the other way,
> maintain their unsustainable way of life while they, unlike most of
> humanity, have the means of making a difference?
> - why do these people continue to believe in a socio-political system that
> is harmful to life and wellbeing?
> - why do these same educated people ignore the historical impacts of their
> societies while refusing to allow other societies to develop, hiding behind
> global change as an excuse to hold those societies back?
> These are some of the questions one with any sense of fairness would
> pounder and try to resolve.
> Cheers,
> E
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 at 09:00, Phillip Dustan via Coral-List <
> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> > People obviously love money more than life until they find that money is
> > useless.
> > We are fast approaching that decision point on this planel.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 11:29 AM Vassil Zlatarski via Coral-List <
> > coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
> >
> > > in the face of planetary changes that will reshape the lives of our
> > > grandchildren?  In 1968, Baba Dioum, a Senegalese forest ranger,
> > provided a
> > > memorable answer.  "In the end", he said, "we will conserve only what
> we
> > > love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only
> > > what we are taught.
> > >
> > > -  Knoll, A. H. 2021. A Brief History of Earth
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> >
> >
> > Phillip Dustan PhD
> > Charleston SC  29424
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> >
> > "When we try to pick out anything by itself
> > we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords
> > that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe. "
> > *                                         John Muir 1869*
> >
> > *A Swim Through TIme on Carysfort Reef*
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCPJE7UE6sA
> > *Raja Ampat Sustainability Project video*
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RR2SazW_VY&fbclid=
> IwAR09oZkEk8wQkK6LN3XzVGPgAWSujACyUfe2Ist__nYxRRSkDE_jAYqkJ7A
> > *Bali Coral Bleaching 2016 video*
> >
> > *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxOfLTnPSUo
> > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxOfLTnPSUo>*
> > TEDx Charleston on saving coral reefs
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwENBNrfKj4
> > Google Scholar Citations:
> > https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HCwfXZ0AAAAJ
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