[Coral-List] Last 3 days to apply for upcoming - REEF BUILDING WORKSHOP
Risk, Michael
riskmj at mcmaster.ca
Sat Jul 17 14:06:38 UTC 2021
Igor:
Any time I hear someone calling for unity of voces, my automatic
translator kicks in and says "agree with ME."
I do not see "attacks" (and whatever they are, they are not
unprecedented)-I see legitimate questions raised by experienced
researchers. Restoration specialists would be well advised to respond
to those concerns.
Sure, we are facing a dire situation. Your focus is on climate
change-but the data clearly show that we have lost far more corals from
local stresses than we have (so far!) to climate change. Reef
restoration efforts that fail to put WQ front and centre are ignoring
decades of work.
As to whether restoration efforts will ultimately prove to be futile:
my guess is, yeah, a waste of time. I see no signs of bending of any
critical trajectories.
Same old Mike
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Hi all
I am with Austin and Franziska... the challenges facing coral
restoration
scientists and practitioners as a result of the incessant and
increasing
attacks on reef restoration are unprecedented in the history of coral
reef
scientific community. Several reef scientists continue to assume that
to
replant the entire reef, or offer a quick fix solution that waters down
the
need for action on climate change. Indeed, there are those who promote
that approach still. But this is rubbishing all coral restoration in
highly
visible public tweets, and it keeps coming to Coral List through
various
researchers as they see quick fix positions portrayed in the media. To
have
a fractured and disunited coral reef community is not such a good thing
in
this time of crisis. What we need is a unity of vision to raise our
voice
more loudly, and make us more effective in our collective work to
disseminate and raise awareness about the importance of our cause, as
far
as we hope for coral reefs into sustainable management. We are in the
leading edge in the war against the impacts of climate change to keep
coral
species and genotypes alive in the face of mass die offs. And we are
in
the same boat but we don't have the luxury of waiting for all problems
to
be solved, so let's work together along parallel tracks!
Best,
Igor Pessoa
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