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Destruction of Corals, a Terrible Tragedy Awaiting the Earth
January 13, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Environmental Health
Five times in the history of life on the earth, the corals have died out. Each time they have taken tens of millions of years to evolve anew from simpler creatures. Leading Australian marine scientist Dr J.E.N. “Charlie” Veron argues we are at the brink of a sixth mass extinction – and that the killers of the largest living organism on the planet, the GBR, will be none other than ourselves.
In “A Reef in Time”, published by Harvard University Press, Dr Veron traces the story of the GBR from beginning to what he sees as its probable demise towards the end of the present century.
The former Chief Scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science sees the Reef as Nature’s pinnacle of achievement in the ocean realm, a place of endless beauty that has endured when other places on the earth have changed beyond recognition.
It is the only living organism large enough to be viewed from outer space. What a tragedy if it were reduced to a crumbling, weed-infested heap of limestone rubble within the lifespan of our children, never to return while humans still exist, he
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