[Coral-List] Dive Industry Still Lacking

[Bill Allison]

The response of the ski/tourism industry is not all roses, but one based on
the strategic imperative of capitalism, maintaining/growing the bottom
line. Witness this, what "advertorial" from CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/europes-best-hidden-ski-resorts/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0f0-RQPJcRGuGuhl8vV60RBNGo-q8Vjgbe_WRYAty_KK8N7o_SibY0HN8


On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 9:53 AM Steve Mussman via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> So, I would like to know why the skiing industry gets it and the diving
> industry remains immobilized and mostly quiescent. Seems to me that these
> two industries are in competition for the same demographic and both stand
> to lose out considerably if climate change and other human activity-based
> threats continue unabated.
>
>
> https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29122019/ski-resorts-climate-change-risk-activism-voters-congress-election-winter-sports
>
> The only explanation I can come up with is that the (US) scuba industry is
> dominated by people who are unmoved by the science while the skiing
> industry apparently has more in the way of progressive-thinking leadership.
>
> I’ve always believed that the scuba industry had an inherent
> responsibility to promote activism from within their ranks for the same
> reason that skiing does. While one relies on coral reefs and one on snow,
> both livelihoods are directly threatened.
>
> The surfing industry seems to understand even though the impacts of
> climate change on that sport are less certain.
> https://www.surfrider.org/priority-campaigns/climate-change
>
> Then, there’s this quote from:
> https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gypeaj/by-2050-climate-change-will-be-turning-into-a-bummer-for-surfers
> “The deaths of corals have devastating and far-reaching effects that have
> nothing at all to do with surfing. By 2050, the rocklike coral structures
> that make up coral reefs will likely still be there even if most of the
> corals are dead. That means those wave breaks will still occur for the
> foreseeable future, but like so many non-apocalyptic effects of climate
> change, all that dead coral is going to be a buzzkill by 2050”.
>
> I’d say that buzzkill is already here.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
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