dhajjieboy
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Coral
Jun 20, 2016, 16:01
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In case you are not paying attention,
The planet we live on is currently losing an entire phylum.
Carry on.........
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carol27
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Re: Coral
Jun 21, 2016, 20:11
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Only 7% of the Great Barrier Reef has avoided coral bleaching..to do with raising global temperatures apparently. Also apparently the Austrailian govt. have lent on the UN to remove it from their "report". See I've no idea what it means, but I fear its not right.
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laresident
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Re: Coral
Jun 22, 2016, 19:15
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It is worrying but I don't know what to do about it. Anything you are doing we should also participate in?
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dhajjieboy
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Re: Coral
Jun 23, 2016, 12:15
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laresident wrote: It is worrying but I don't know what to do about it. Anything you are doing we should also participate in?
It's too late now....
The events set in motion by the human race will continue to negatively impact the ecology of our planet Earth for Hundreds of years more. even if we 'all' vanish over night......{all 7-8 Billion of us}.
Humanity is a plauge species. 'We' trashed and strip-mined our world.
The Bible {of all things...} provides the best answer......
Build an Ark....
If you do not know what to do.....believe me, our 'leaders' don't either.
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carol27
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Re: Coral
Jun 23, 2016, 16:08
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dhajjieboy wrote: laresident wrote: It is worrying but I don't know what to do about it. Anything you are doing we should also participate in?
It's too late now....
The events set in motion by the human race will continue to negatively impact the ecology of our planet Earth for Hundreds of years more. even if we 'all' vanish over night......{all 7-8 Billion of us}.
Humanity is a plauge species. 'We' trashed and strip-mined our world.
The Bible {of all things...} provides the best answer......
Build an Ark....
If you do not know what to do.....believe me, our 'leaders' don't either.
Oh that's for sure & they don't give a fuck anyway...as long as it works for them now. And building an Ark won't work either..Happy days.
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Sin Agog
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Re: Coral
Jun 23, 2016, 19:14
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At least the ark will be less likely to sink by running into a coral reef.
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carol27
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Re: Coral
Jun 23, 2016, 21:01
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Sin Agog wrote: At least the ark will be less likely to sink by running into a coral reef.
Sin, shall we build a sustainable wood ark, put some hares in it & sail over to Ireland? Sorry, bad mood, despair kind of day. We'll ask Dhaj along for the intellectual American viewpoint. Dhaj,I mean that with all due respect.
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Markoid
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Edited Jun 23, 2016, 21:38
Re: Coral
Jun 23, 2016, 21:35
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He's right about coral though. Coral sustains life in the seas, probably more as much as trees we think sustains life above the seas. Coral, contrary to popular belief, are animals...not plants. If anybody has been lucky enough to dive in the Great Barrier Reef or The Red Sea would know. Which I have done.
Coral are essential to the survival of pretty much all life on earth.
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carol27
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Re: Coral
Jun 23, 2016, 21:42
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I do know that. Dhaj is right.. but, you know, who gives a shit.( sarcasm )
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Sin Agog
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Re: Coral
Jun 23, 2016, 23:05
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carol27 wrote: Sin Agog wrote: At least the ark will be less likely to sink by running into a coral reef.
Sin, shall we build a sustainable wood ark, put some hares in it & sail over to Ireland? Sorry, bad mood, despair kind of day. We'll ask Dhaj along for the intellectual American viewpoint. Dhaj,I mean that with all due respect.
Woah, I was actually thinking about heading to Ireland if things work out badly today. They have a policy where anyone who can prove that they're really an artist gets big tax deductions. No way that's not an improvement on this...Pink Floydian people-grinder of a country we're living in right now.
Actually, I already live on a boat (albeit one which floats, but doesn't really move, at least last time I checked), so I don't see why I don't just turn it into my own personal ark and start afresh somewhere. Maybe too scared of breaking away from the status quo, grotty as it may be? Also adore my precious South Downs too much. They're my touchstone, my lifeblood. Would be lost without them.
Anyway, was watching a documentary on the walking Epaulette Shark earlier which lives in coral reefs, and goes for a gambol about town when the tide goes out too far. Eerie to think that whole ecosystem, and maybe others besides are doomed. Constantly having to check people for picking flowers and robbing the starving bees of nutrition, even if they're doing it because they're pretty and they want to touch them. If we really botch it in that area we're doomed.
Then again, I guess we're still in that post-industrial "Things are great! Need more" stage and that feeling will level off eventually. New ecosystems will be formed. New phases in humankind. There is a seed planted in a lot of people's minds even now to keep themselves in check, to try, to quote Roy Harper, to "leave the world as clean as when they came." If people now are starting to have dialogues about how to treat LGBT respectfully, what words to use, when thirty years ago Bernard Manning and the like were ripping them to shreds for being different, maybe it won't be too long before we start evolving on a big scale in our thinking about our carbon footprints etc.? Then again...we'll find out tomorrow just how Far From the Manning Crowd we really are.
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