US EditionCoral Reefs Are Dying—We’ve Crossed the First Tipping Point. All of America Will Pay the Price.
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Scientists are warning that coral reefs have reached the first tipping point caused by climate change. Their widespread extinction may be virtually irreversible, according to a new study. At the same time, other natural systems, from the Amazon rainforest to ice sheets, are also nearing collapse.
Throughout its history, the Earth has experienced climatic upheavals, sometimes brutal, often spread over millennia. What is being played out today escapes this geological slowness. Vital balances are evading in a few decades, speeded up by human acceleration. At the heart of this mutation, the death of corals stands out as the first tangible signal of a changing world. Coral reefs, the first victims of a global overheating Under the turquoise w…
Coral reefs are dying—We’ve Crossed the First Tipping Point. All of America Will Pay the Price.
Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous — My parents’ marriage was against the law in Maryland in 1966, so they moved west. By the time I was born in 1973, they had settled in Monterey County, California—the same year the last cannery on Cannery Row shut down. The Hovden Cannery closed its doors, marking […]
Coral reefs are dying—We've Crossed the First Tipping Point. All of America Will Pay the Price.
By Ben Jealous — My parents’ marriage was against the law in Maryland in 1966, so they moved west. By the time I was born in 1973, they had settled... The post We’ve Crossed the First Tipping Point. All of America Will Pay the Price. Coral reefs are dying—and the consequences reach far beyond our coasts. is available on Institute of the Black World 21st Century.
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