That is the stark conclusion from the first global study to assess the extinction risks of corals.
Writing in the journal Science, researchers say climate change, coastal development, overfishing, and pollution are the major threats. The economic value of the world's reefs has been estimated at over $30bn (£15bn) per year, through tourism, fisheries and coastal protection.
"The picture is frightening," said Alex Rogers from the Zoological Society of London, one of 39 scientists involved in the assessment.
"It's not just the fact that something like a third of all reef-forming corals are threatened, but that we could be facing the loss of large areas of these ecosystems within 50 to 100 years."
_________________ "Thank you for attending the oil age. We're going to scrape what we can out of these tar pits in Alberta and then shut down the machines and turn out the lights. Goodnight." - seldom_seen
Indeed to observe such loss is a petty, however there must be a higher reason to the madness. I see it from the perspective of Terrence McKenna who hinted that 2012 will give birth to an advanced nature. It well might be our physical loss (given that humanity might act as the placenta for that entity and to be simply being disposed thereafter).
Either way, if one would be able to connect ALL human beings and brains to create ONE super computing power, physical annihilation (including our planetary history and precious coral systems, which are super old intelligent entities) will seem nothing but necessary power systems to fuel the process.
Jose Arguelles mentions in one of his unreadable books that the process of burning oil can happen only once in a planetary process.
Jose Arguelles mentions in one of his unreadable books
I find them highly "readable", it's just that you have to do it several times to get the gist of what he's saying, it's extremely complex...but NOT "unreadable".
If coral reefs are ancient 'computing' entities in the ocean then the opposite on land would be deserts (non computing).
China has the Gobi as well as the Taklamakan. The hottest temperature on earth ever recorded was in the Lut desert in Iran.
In regards to 2012 (to change the topic) Jose Arguelles indeed was the original mind in bringing attention to what later became New Age wisdom, as much as this date or year cannot the interpreted in outcome, since subject to transformation.
The old Hindus mention what they call Akashic records, which in essence refer to the idea that nothing is ever lost, but fed into a database that holds all detail of all activities that ever happened in all of time.
Imagine an entity that absorbs everything that ever happens in form of an ultimate data collection (Gurdijeff talks about the Great Nature that slaughters all of us in the end), and pair it with the idea that humankind is nothing but the placenta for a form of advanced consciousness, one comes to the conclusion that there are ways to sit back and relax, simply since we are not in control.
Peak Oil in respect would play nothing but an enzymatic role in terms of being the controlling hormone to introduce and maintain labor.
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