[Coral-List] Getting old is no fun.

[Nicole Crane]

I make a big point of discussing the importance of shifting baselines with
my students in the hopes that they will at least be aware of that.  We MUST
get across to our successors that this change is rapid and real.  Otherwise
they will not know or be motivated to take the same passion into the
'fight' with them.
I hear you
Nicole

Nicole L. Crane
Faculty, Cabrillo College
Natural and Applied Sciences
www.cabrillo.edu/~ncrane

Senior Conservation Scientist, Project co-lead
One People One Reef
onepeopleonereef.ucsc.edu





On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 9:42 AM John Ware <jware at erols.com> wrote:

> Dear Peter and List,
>
> Peter Sale's recent comment, extracted below:
>
> "...that over the next decade or so, the world is going to lose a lot of
> coral reef scientists along with our memories of what reefs could be like
> in a Holocene ocean that no longer exists."
>
> This reminded me of a recent trip my wife and I made to Curacao.  We have
> been diving ~40 years, maybe not long by the standards of many coral reef
> scientists, but long enough to have seen many changes to our reefs.
>
> We were on a boat with quite a number of much younger divers (it seems
> everyone is much younger these days).  When we came up my wife's first
> comment was that "It was like diving on a cemetery!"  However, the younger
> divers were raving about the beautiful reef referring to algal-covered
> mounds that were once live coral.
>
> John
>
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