By The amount of marine life that has been killed and depleted by fishing or pollution over the past hundred years.
The amount of pollution that has been caused by our fishing boats and our pollution-contaminated water that has been driven from the ocean.
The ocean is our best resource and we are destroying it at a steady rate. In fact, the amount of fish that have been killed, depleted, and polluted is so great that the Great Barrier Reef has been declared dead. But at the same time, the amount of fish that have been found to live well and be healthy in our oceans and rivers is so great that the ocean is now being declared healthy.
The Great Barrier Reef is actually the second most damaged coral reef in the world. The world’s most extensive coral reef is located off the coast of Australia, and the most extreme damage that has occurred there is a huge bleaching event. However, the worst bleaching in the history of the world occurred in the Pacific Ocean. When that took place, the reefs were devastated and the seas were filled with toxic coral.
The problem is that people continue to ignore the fact that coral reefs are not natural structures. They are manmade. When coral reefs are damaged, it is not because of overfishing, over-harvesting or over-harvesting by humans. It is because of a global human demand for coral for building and construction.
The problem is that we don’t realize how much we are using coral reefs as if they are natural, “green” structures. We are using them to line our water intake pipes, to make our concrete and asphalt, and to make our buildings. They are manmade structures that serve no function other than to provide us with a massive amount of waste products that we need to deal with. When they are hit by bleaching events they die.
Coral reefs are important to the ocean ecosystem because they hold the world’s largest marine fish, which are a critical part of the food web for the rest of marine life. Bleaching events on coral reefs are very damaging to them, though, and they are the primary cause of dead zones where reefs are no longer able to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Coral reefs provide habitat for a whole bunch of different fish and invertebrates, and are critical to the stability of ocean ecosystems.
Coral reefs are important to the ocean ecosystem because they hold the worlds largest marine fish, which are a critical part of the food web for the rest of marine life. Bleaching events on coral reefs are very damaging to them, though, and they are the primary cause of dead zones where reefs are no longer able to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Coral reefs provide habitat for a whole bunch of different fish and invertebrates, and are critical to the stability of ocean ecosystems.
The death of coral reefs is the number one reason that the planet is suffering the biggest ecological crisis of all time and the biggest threat to biodiversity. The problem is not that reefs are dying, it’s that they are being stressed by overfishing and overharvesting of fish and other marine life. In the future, we have no real ability to control how much fish we can harvest and how much waste we create.
In a way, it is one of the great natural disasters of all time. It happened around the same time that the first great extinction of marine life happened. But it was also one of the consequences of human beings destroying the planet’s coral reefs. It is like what scientists were predicting would happen with global warming, but with the same result: the death of the great diversity of marine life.
