[Coral-List] Coral restoration trashing

[JJ]

BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!
jeremy

On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 11:39 AM Luiz Rocha via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> Alright, I've had it. I am sick and tired of the constant trashing and
> criticism that coral restoration projects and that any science even
> remotely related to restoration are getting. Even though I don't work on it
> (directly or indirectly) I know a lot of scientists working on coral
> restoration. And I also know a lot of restoration projects. Not a single
> one of them has ever said that the solution for the coral reef crysis is
> coral restoration. This is hyperbole created either by the media and the
> critics of coral restoration.
>
> Now more specifically about the critiques to every kind of science related
> to restoration. If we put together all of the dollars that went into coral
> restoration science, in all of human history, that adds up to (very
> graciously) about half a billion dollars. For those that keep saying that
> we can solve the climate crisis with coral restoration dollars, please,
> please, tell me how 500 million dollars would solve climate change. If you
> sit down and really think about it, I hope you realize that climate change
> is not a money problem. We have the money and the solutions to do it. What
> we do not have is the political will.
>
> And for those that keep saying that corals in air conditioned aquaria are
> not a solution, rhinos in zoos aren't either, so should we kill them all
> and be done with it? The only surviving individuals of unique genetic
> lineages of several species that used to be in Florida are now only alive
> in aquaria. So let's use the few hundreds of thousands of dollars being
> used to keep them alive to convince Ron De Santis and Donald Trump that
> climate change is real. Yeah, that's gonna work. These dollars (even if
> dollars could solve climate change, which they won't) are not competing
> with climate change dollars. That's like asking to stop funding coral
> taxonomy because giving coral species names is only rearranging the chairs
> in the Titanic. That argument can be used for any branch of science that is
> not fighting climate change. And it is not true.
>
> So, get off your horses, fight climate change the best way you can, and
> keep doing science, even if it's not related to climate change. Because it
> will help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luiz
>
> Luiz A. Rocha, Ph.D.
> Curator and Follett Chair of Ichthyology
> Co-Director, Hope For Reefs Initiative
>
> California Academy of Sciences
>
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Jeremy Jackson
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