[Coral-List] Rebuilding marine life
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Thu Jan 28 16:52:25 UTC 2021
Hi Doug,
Thanks for the heads up on that paper. I especially liked two of their primary concepts.
The idea of framing the restoration of marine ecosystems as a “doable Grand Challenge” for humanity and the coining of the term “recovery wedges” which are defined as complementary actions which when stacked together help raise the recovery rates of various ecosystem components. Mitigating climate change, removing sources of water pollution and addressing over-fishing are described as “basal wedges” which are required to set coral reefs on a recovery trajectory.
My question to you and other listers is this: Considering that here in the USA, the new administration seems to be determined to take a leadership role on climate change.
Is “substantially rebuilding marine life within a human generation largely achievable, if the required actions, prominently mitigating climate change, are deployed at scale”?
Thoughts?
Regards,
Steve
On 1/24/21, 11:29 PM, Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2146-7
The discussion has a long paragraph on coral reefs that begins with the
statement: "Rebuilding coral reefs carries the highest risk of failure."
Cheers, Doug
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Douglas Fenner
Lynker Technologies, LLC, Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Coral Reef Consulting
PO Box 997390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799-6298 USA
Social cost of carbon emissions much higher than previous estimates
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/trump-downplayed-costs-carbon-pollution-s-about-change
A German initiative seeks to curb global emissions of a climate
super-pollutant
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30122020/chemical-plant-nitrous-oxide-climate-warming-emissions/
The toxic effects of air pollution are so bad that moving from fossil fuels
to clean energy would pay for itself in health-care savings and
productivity gains
—
even if climate change didn’t exist. In the US alone, decarbonization
would save 1.4 MILLION lives in the US alone. And save $700 Billion a year.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/8/12/21361498/climate-change-air-pollution-us-india-china-deaths
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