“Australian ecologist Roger Bradbury has recently asserted that coral reefs are doomed, living-dead, “zombie ecosystems” that will inevitably—and soon—utterly collapse under the multiple fatal blows of overfishing, pollution and the ocean acidification and warming resulting from the global buildup of carbon dioxide. (See his New York Times op-ed, “A World Without Coral Reefs.”) Bradbury says we should give up. Any hope for reefs, he says, is a delusion.” Can that really be so? Carl Safina. “Life Finds a Way, But Needs Our Help,” from the Utne.com blog, Realizing the Vision.

“Australian ecologist Roger Bradbury has recently asserted that coral reefs are doomed, living-dead, “zombie ecosystems” that will inevitably—and soon—utterly collapse under the multiple fatal blows of overfishing, pollution and the ocean acidification and warming resulting from the global buildup of carbon dioxide. (See his New York Times op-ed, “A World Without Coral Reefs.”)

Bradbury says we should give up. Any hope for reefs, he says, is a delusion.”

Can that really be so?

Carl Safina. “Life Finds a Way, But Needs Our Help,” from the Utne.com blog, Realizing the Vision.

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