20 years ago I dived the Great barrier Reef for the first of dozens of times. Whilst in Cairns I attended a diving seminar focused on the GBR. The fantastic Irish marine biologist conducting the seminar suggested we all congratulate each other for being the last generation to dive the GBR before it died.
What he didn’t explain thoroughly, is that the reef systems are the incubator of the oceans and represent beginning of the marine food web. That web is unraveling rapidly in a nonlinear, exponential manner. A full 90% of the planets oxygen is produced by the flora and fauna in the oceans and the bulk of the planets protein emanates from them. This will soon collapse and there will be no more food nor oxygen coming from those oceans, chaos, death and suffering will prevail on a planetary level.
Runaway abrupt climate change will extinguish most, if not all complex life on this planet much sooner than anyone other than Professor Guy McPherson is saying. More info on the NTHE at guymcpherson.com or follow his and Mike Sliwa’s radio show Nature Bats Last on prn.fm.
‘If scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef is on your bucket list, you might want to book tickets soon. This week, marine biologists dropped some horribly depressing news: the Great Barrier Reef is dying. The world’s largest reef is in the midst of a widespread coral bleaching event, and scientists aren’t sure whether it will fully recover.’ Full article, ‘A Nightmare Is Unfolding in the Great Barrier Reef, continues here.
I'm an anti-imperialist, environmental activist and blue ocean sailor, who is passionate about the earth and all it's inhabitants without favour. Brace for imminent impact as we bare witness to the non-linear unraveling of the biosphere and habitability disappearing for most if not all complex life on the only habitable planet we know of. To quote President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’. Folks we have lost the Arctic.
Kevin Hester 
Reblogged this on Nick Robson's Blog.
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Krill are suffering in the perfect storm of ocean acidification, loss of habitat as the sea ice in the Arctic disappears, acidification, over fishing through high tech, targeted, vacuuming of the oceans and the collapse of the marine food chain. They and the symbiotic phyto plankton provide via their place in marine food chain 50% of the worlds protein and nearly 90% of the planets oxygen and they are all in collapse now, not far off in the future. Do the math, face the reality of unfolding collapse.
https://xploitationfiles.org/2017/04/14/krill-fisheries-the-next-fisheries-collapse/
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Even the NY Times has been forced to come to the party.
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Our oceans are now out-gassing carbon as they acidify and become uninhabitable.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170707095353.htm
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“Marine hotspot off Tasmania most intense yet, more damaging heatwaves to come, scientists say”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-18/most-intense-marine-heatwave-yet-recorded-off-tasmania/8717352
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“The Gulf of Alaska cod populations appears to have taken a nose-dive. Scientists are shocked at the collapse and starving fish, making this the “worst they’ve ever seen.”
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/scientists-shocked-as-fisheries-collapse-on-west-coast-its-the-worst-weve-seen_11132017
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But wait, there’s always more.
https://watershedsentinel.ca/articles/ocean-acidification-is-reshaping-marine-food-webs/?fbclid=IwAR2vVe0YgT3xlxrScsbUeijuEV6CMJRsWw7rMoeJdMhrvtWDDf84WaKlVBw
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