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The Great Barrier Reef, Catastrophe Laid Bare

Posted on June 15, 2016 by Kevin Hester — 22 Comments

I first dived the Great Barrier Reef about 15 years ago. At the time, a marine biologist in Cairns conducted a seminar that I attended, and said that the reef had only a generation of life left in it. Those…

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Religion and Extinction

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Kevin Hester — 2 Comments

I have been following the great climate blogger RobertScribbler for a number of years but we have clashed over  his inability to accept our imminent extinction, it had me banned from commenting on his great Facebook Page. Perhaps the reason is…

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Total Lack Of Urgency in Dealing with Climate Emergency

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Kevin Hester — 9 Comments

‘Our climate change emergency is gaining momentum at a non linear, exponential pace, with the massive bleaching event unfolding on the Great Barrier Reef and the extraordinary fires burning in Alberta which have precipitated the evacuation of 80,000 + people…

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Blue Water Danger in the Arctic

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Kevin Hester — 2 Comments

Excellent tutorial on the ongoing Arctic unraveling from Paul Beckwith who you can find at PaulBeckwith.net with a chilling reference to the inevitable desperate geo-engineering possibilities. In my recent interview on CounterPunch  here:  ‘Paul Street & Kevin Hester – Episode…

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Professor Guy McPherson in NZ 2016

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Kevin Hester — Leave a comment

We were warned and we didn’t listen. First of all in 1847 by George Perkins Marsh and then, even by the UN in 1989 and more recently by Professor Guy McPherson, who will be returning to NZ in November 2016. If…

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Our Collapsing Marine Food Web

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Kevin Hester — 54 Comments

Recently there has been limited coverage in social media circles and to a lesser extent in the MSM about the collapse of the Great Barrier Reef which has been portrayed as another ” Bleaching Event”. It is not simply a…

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We’ve cooked the Great Barrier Reef

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Kevin Hester — 4 Comments

“Australia’s lack of action on pollution reduction targets has made the country a laughing stock on the international stage, according to senator Larissa Waters“, and “Australia’s lack of follow-through on climate change will leave the Great Barrier Reef ‘completely cooked’…

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We Have Over-reached Our Planetary Boundaries

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Kevin Hester — Leave a comment

Population overshoot, peak everything, a crack like addiction to carbon has pushed us to and over the cliff of our planets boundaries. All the low hanging fruit has been plucked and in many ways wasted on indulgent extravagance.  The piper…

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Exceeding Our Planetary Boundaries

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Kevin Hester — Leave a comment

“As for global warming, a non-consensus school of scientific thought, consisting of a small minority of scientists, believes the ecosystem is at risk of collapse within current lifetime. These scientists do not pull punches. Rather, they tell it like it…

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Sadness Seeing Dying Reefs

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Kevin Hester — Leave a comment

In 1998 I dived the GBR for the first time and a marine biologist I studied under congratulated me for being the last generation to dive the reef before it died. In 2011 I sailed across the Coral sea to…

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Kevin Hester

Kevin Hester is currently living on Rakino Island, a small island in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland, New Zealand, monitoring the unravelling of the biosphere and volunteering at the Rakino Island Nursery is currently developing a proposal to create a marine reserve near by. The Island has no grid tied electricity or reticulated water.  I catch my own water from the roof and generate my electricity from the ample solar radiation on the island.

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