More doom for the day... I feel like debbie downer today

[lonestarnot]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060330/ap_on_sc/coral_death

WASHINGTON - A one-two punch of bleaching from record hot water followed by disease has killed ancient and delicate coral in the biggest loss of reefs scientists have ever seen in Caribbean waters.

[CrispyQ]

1. Humans pride themselves on being the pinnacle of creation,

yet we continue to soil our own nest to the point it's no longer habitable.

:cry:


snip...

"It's an unprecedented die-off," said National Park Service fisheries biologist Jeff Miller, who last week checked 40 stations in the Virgin Islands. "The mortality that we're seeing now is of the extremely slow-growing reef-building corals. These are corals that are the foundation of the reef ... We're talking colonies that were here when Columbus came by have died in the past three to four months."

Some of the devastated coral can never be replaced because it only grows the width of one dime a year, Miller said.

[Union Thug]

2. "we got department stores...

and toilet paper,
We've got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer.

Gotta man of the people says keep hope alive,
got fuel to burn
got roads to drive....."

Americans won't give a shit until they watch their own children dying in the streets. So long as they have their consumer distractions, reality tv, iPods and X-Boxes, no one gives a rat's ass what happens to the world.

...look at mother nature on the run in the TWENTY-FIRST century....

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. Can we please keep toilet paper?

[lonestarnot]

4. I believe we're seeing more than the beginning of the end.

[Generic Other]

7. Hey, that quote would make a great script for the Chevy ad.

You better go make one.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x785853


You too, Debbie Downer!! :)

[Neil Lisst]

5. Wah-wah!!

Debbie Downer.

One of the funniest characters ever.

[lonestarnot]

6. Yes but the issue if far from funny.

:cry:

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Seahorses are also vanishing.

And so much of the exciting future seems so far away...sigh.

[lonestarnot]

9. seahorses are my favorite creatures...

:cry:

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Don't cry, donate to the seahorse conservation fund.

Google dat.

[lonestarnot]

11. What good is money going to do?

[lonestarnot]

12. found this on a seahorse website

The seahorse is an integral element used in treatments by TCM physicians. There is a Chinese saying, which embodies the significance of the seahorse in TCM medicine: "North is Ginseng and South is Seahorse". Seahorses are known to contain natural testosterone and are used to cure a variety of aliments including sexual dysfunction such as impotence and infertility. Other ailments include respiratory disorders such as asthma, circulatory problems such as heart disease, kidney, liver disease, throat infections, skin ailments, general lethargy and pain.


So how can money help this? These beliefs are inculcated.

[mikelewis]

13. If we can't grind it up and run our cars off of it then I doubt people...

will give a shit.

Signed,

Mopey Mike