[Coral-List] Combating the Climate Crisis

William Precht william.precht at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 16:26:07 UTC 2020


So instead of coming together as one coral reef community of scientists,
managers, policy makers, and conservationists we should compete with each
other’s interests - sounds counter intuitive and counterproductive to me.

BP

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:58 AM Matt Nolan via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> Here is a potential solution.
>
> Set up a competing conference that covers the exact same topics at the
> exact same time as the ICRS conference.
>
> Map out the potential attendees.
>
> Determine a set of regional locations where one set of the conference
> topics will be streamed from and made available by video conferencing.
>
> Organize the locations so one just has several consecutive marathon days of
> sessions.
>
> if you have two consecutive 6 or 8 hours sessions in one day. Two days in a
> row. Three days at most.
>
> You have deincentivised anyone making a long trip for one maybe two night
> overnight stay at some distant location.
>
> Do some analytics to make sure you didn't increase # number of shorter
> flights as you may have more attendees.
>
> Really compete on price the first year.   Start with some lower fixed cost
> per attendee to start.  Assume a fixed amount of dollars to be taken from
> off-site attendees.  Offer rebates to off-site attendees if when then fixed
> dollar amount desired is achieved  rebate/kickback = surplus / # off-site
> subscriptions.
>
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> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:16 AM Chelsie Counsell via Coral-List <
> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> > It is crazy that we've been talking about increasing remote access to
> coral
> > reef research meetings for at least 20 years - kudos to Mark Spalding for
> > making this part of the conversation then and reminding us all now. A
> small
> > team of us has been working to set up globally interconnected local
> > meetings
> > for Coral Reef Week this July. Check out our website, coralreefweek.org
> to
> > find a meeting near you or to get in touch with us about organizing a
> > meeting in your location.
> >
> >
> >
> > Also, can we please stop fighting about what path is the best for
> combating
> > the climate crisis? Because we didn't take action decades ago when
> climate
> > scientists were presenting the dangers of greenhouse gas emissions to
> > congress, we are now in an alarming position of needing unprecedented
> > societal change. For the future of this planet and everything on it, we
> > need to do everything we can, as much as we can.
> >
> >
> > I agree with Luis that we should vote and do all we can to encourage
> > regulatory change. We should also eat vegan diets, bike to work /
> carpool /
> > use public transit, and work to not be the continuous consumers of
> > manufactured products that the capitalistic market encourages us to be.
> We
> > should also fly less. The 3% of emissions number is a really ridiculous
> way
> > to justify our addiction to air travel since a very small proportion of
> the
> > global population ever gets on a plane, with an even smaller proportion
> > responsible for multiple long distance flights each year. The 3%
> disregards
> > the transportation used to get to / from the airport and the massive
> > infrastructure of airports. It does not include the water vapor emissions
> > or the altitude at which the engine pollutants are directly placed into
> the
> > atmosphere. Air traffic currently accounts for three times more emissions
> > than the total emissions of a country like France, and it is projected to
> > double by 2030. Minute per minute, air travel is the fastest way for an
> > individual to contribute massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. For
> > many of our personal carbon emission footprints, flying makes up a much
> > larger percentage than 3% and should not be ignored as an option to cut
> our
> > personal contributions to the climate crisis. Learn more at
> > https://noflyclimatesci.org/ - check out their Resources page for lots
> of
> > great sources.
> >
> > ~ ~ ><> ~ ~ ~ ><> ~ ~
> > Chelsie Counsell, Ph.D.
> > Quantitative Community Ecologist
> > Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology
> > chelsiew12 at gmail.com
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