Hurry up and buy a plane ticket to Australia, my friends

Ezekiel 2022-12-26 03:35:40

I knew global warming would cause corals to bleach and die, but I didn't expect it to happen so quickly

It has always been said that sustainable development is to hope that our children and grandchildren can have the same development rights as our generation. Really don’t think about our children and grandchildren first. Let’s burn a high incense if our generation can die in a world of flowers and grass.

From my own master's degree to study clean energy, I want to be an environmentalist, or I want to be a volunteer in a local wildlife protection NGO. I always don't want people around me to have the idea that people who do environmental protection are "Virgin Mary". Colleagues who are concerned about human rights will have the idea of ​​"human rights can't be guaranteed, how can you have the energy to care about animals", but I always feel that in wildlife protection, the flagship species is used as an indicator to measure whether our ecological environment is still suitable for human survival. The needs at the bottom of Maslow's Pyramid are not something that only the Virgin or the well-fed people have to consider.

Corals are not that kind of "so cute how to eat" species to many people and even to me they are too bright and spooky but coral is a forest on the bottom of the sea The death of coral means the death of the small fish that live in the coral and then If you eat small big fish, there will be no people who make a living by fishing, and there will be no source of livelihood. When we talk about protecting nature, people will never be able to get away from it.

For someone like me who grew up in an inland city and lived mostly on vegetables in a greenhouse, it seems that the life and death of corals are not so close to me. Unfortunately, I have always been a hypocritical and pessimistic person who believes in Teacher Yin San'er's "everything". "To die" is the true meaning of life. I am afraid of ritual. I think that many things in life are actually meaningless, but I happened to see another pessimistic person who wrote "Although everything in life is a dream bubble, life has a beautiful dream bubble and it is beautiful." So To this day, I still hold the illusion of trying to live to see more "beauty" in the world, so I still hope that the Great Barrier Reef will not become a pile of bones before I buy a plane ticket to Australia

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  • Andrew Ackerman: They say it's one of the rarest events in nature happening and everyone's just oblivious to it. And you can't blame them for it, it's just almost typical of all of humanity. - Andrew Ackerman, Chasing Coral