[Coral-List] NGOs, Corals and Dive Industry

[John Ware]

Doug and List,

I am  glad that someone put this whole discussion about divers and the 
dive industry in perspective.  Doug Fenners remark about "re-arranging 
deck chairs on the Titanic" is an almost perfect analogy.

I go about giving lectures to divers about the effect of climate change 
on reefs, not because divers have a large effect by diving, but because 
at least some people that I can relate to are being educated.

One of the things that I tell divers (which many of you will just hate 
and have a problem with) is that: If you carry a sledge hammer on your 
next dive trip and spend each and every dive pounding the reef with your 
hammer, you will do less harm to the reef than you do by just being 
alive, living in the USA (my focal point), flying to an island to dive, 
consuming outrageous quantities of fossile fuel, etc., etc.

You get my point..

Cheers (??), John

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