🧐 I suppose it has to do with how much you got tracked/your privacy was breached and I shouldn’t take this personally

Yet I couldn't shake the feeling that even what I was seeing was a shadow of the past and that this shadow too might someday pass, as our world keeps warming. A world with vibrant coral reefs and coal power are not compatible, according to the IPCC 1.5 degree report www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter...

I've been lucky enough to snorkel among coral just a few times. Once, just last week, in Maui. I was barreled over putting my face in the water, seeing the whirling, fantastic worlds of wrasse, parrotfish, needlefish, eels, damselfish, tang, turtles, urchins.

With almost 1 billion people worldwide relying on reefs, that makes this “one of the most pressing ecological losses humanity confronts," the Global Tipping Points Report 2025 authors say.

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Also, no offense but the graph is not super clear, so you maybe should despair just a little about the science communication