True story... If you never saw the Great Barrier Reef, I urge you to make a trip to Australia and see what is left.
With the changes in climate, the coral reefs are dying rapidly, and soon they will become things from the past, to be seen in documentaries only.
“We didn’t expect to see this level of destruction to the Great Barrier Reef for another 30 years,” said Terry P. Hughes, director of a government-funded center for coral reef studies at James Cook University.
If most of the world’s coral reefs die, as scientists fear is increasingly likely, some of the richest and most colorful life in the ocean could be lost, along with huge sums from reef tourism. In poorer countries, lives are at stake: Hundreds of millions of people get their protein primarily from reef fish, and the loss of that food supply could become a humanitarian crisis.
See some of my photos back in 2010, during my phd
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All of that and many more species will be gone with the Great Barrier Reef :(