If you have ever thought about scuba diving in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, you’d better not wait until retirement, at least according to Charlie Veron, former chief scientist of the Australian Institute of Marine Science.
Veron found that because of the warming waters caused by global warming, the Great Barrier Reef will be so degraded in 20 years that it will be unrecognizable. This would mark the world’s first global ecosystem collapse.
“There is now way out, no loopholes,” the scientist says. “The Great Barrier reef will be over within 20 years or so. I have the backing of every coral reef scientist, every research organization. I’ve spoken to them all. This is critical. This is reality.”
After being a highly successful life form for 250 million years, disruptions in the biological and communication systems of coral reefs have been found to be the underlying cause of the coral bleaching and collapse of reef ecosystems around the world.
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