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Sheril Kirshenbaum Jul 31, 2023

The extreme heat has devastated corals. As a former marine scientist, this is a truly heartbreaking read:

“The coral didn’t even have a chance to bleach, it just died. It just felt like, ‘Oh my God, we’re in the apocalypse.’ What’s happening?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/climate/coral-reefs-heat-florida-ocean-temperatures.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

“Demand #climate action right now. Not in a year, not tomorrow, right now. Actually yesterday.”

Florida’s Record-Breaking Sea Temperatures Are Forcing Coral to Move Ashore

Teams dedicated to ocean restoration are urgently moving samples to tanks on land as a marine heat wave devastates entire reefs.

The New York Times

@Sheril Very sad to see such disastrous environmental damage with no sense of urgency despite the fact that action of tomorrow deserved attention to be completed yesterday.Movement towards protecting environmental damage is just too slow and we need another Covid moment to react as human brain and human community wired for procrastination unless there is threat of survival staring right on the face.