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1. Coral reefs and climate change, a message for Copenhagen

by Earth Touch

2 years ago

Coral reefs are the most biologically diverse habitats of the oceans and face extinction due to climate change by 2050 ... We're hoping that the politicians and heads of state who attend the UNEP 2009 climate change conference in Copenhagen will make positive amendments to global environmental policy and help save coral reefs and ultimately protect the amazing planet we live on.

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ivan 2 years ago

Wonderful video. very touching and well made, hope people come to their senses as rgards our planet..
Rachel Cole 2 years ago

This is amazing! Everyone needs to see this! I study marine biology and we were saying people need educating on this very important subject... this is the video to do it!! I hope this was sent to copenhagen summit, i hope people saw it, i hope it makes a difference. Well done to the people who made this!
Lucy Marcus 2 years ago

Fantastic video! Congratulations on creating a beautiful piece with a moving and powerful message. Each one of us can make a difference as well, what are you doing to reduce your carbon footprint today?
pedro schillavsky 2 years ago

What crap!!! Get a sweet voice girl to talk about tradegy and devistation and think people will buy into it. Science today is total crap. 30 years ago I was tought that we were on the edge of another ice age. If we didn't stop using aresol we'd all be doomed. If the reefs disappear it won't be because of man. The true hipocracy is that thousand of people sitting on the couch, with their plazma TV's (that use 2.5 times the energy than old TV's) and laptops, both powered by fossil fuel want to try to save the earth from global warming. DO YOUR PART. LOG OFF & TURN OFF. Then drive to Starbucks in your Volvo.
Chris Harries 2 years ago

@ Pedro schillavsky

Although you do bring up a good point referring to the "fossil fuel" powered laptops and TV's that thousands of people are using I do feel that you are grossly misinformed.

Firstly, in terms of geological/evolutionary time, 30 years is a comparable blink of the eye. As a race, humankind has a great deal of difficulty dealing with timespans outside of our short lifetimes. The impact we have had on the global environment over the past century has significantly altered the gaseous composition of our atmosphere and, due to time lagged affects it is unlikely that the final repercussions of our actions will be visible within our lifetimes.

You claim that "If the reefs disappear it won't be because of man". I feel you have overlooked many of the facts (and they are facts) on this. If you want to discuss this further please contact me but I do urge that you watch a very informative recent talk by Charlie Veron to the Royal Institution. See bit.ly/5I8ml.

Claiming that modern science is utter crap is completely unfounded. Science underpins every single part of our modern lives and is the sole reason for the progression of our societies. It is not science that is to blame for mankind polluting the planet...Science can and has provided some exceptional solutions to solving many of the worlds environmental issues..The problem lies with moder economics and the control of global power. The technology is there for us to live our lives in a far more sustainable way..The question is, Is it economically viable???

P.S. warnings of a changing climate appeared in newspapers from as far back as 1953. Was the science of the 1950's utter crap as well (it was the decade we deciphered the inner workings of every cell with the discovery of the structure of DNA). Again, I reiterate..It is not science you have a problem with..It is economics and the portrayal of science within the modern media.
pedro schillavsky 2 years ago

The arrogance of mankind is truely amazing. The earth has been through allot more catastophic events then mankind. The beautiful reefs that we enjoy today were not here during the ice age. Yet somehow they managed to establish, grow, thrive. The earth will be just fine. Mankind, on the other hand might go the way of the dinosaur. But, like the dinosour we are powerless to do anything about it. This great planet has the amazing power to generate life, and regenerate life. That power was here before we arrived, and will be here long after. Meteors hit this planet and destroyed most all life, today I sit here in a warm house, on a computer enjoying the 18 degree sunny day. How did we get from the ice age to today? How did the earth survive the meteor hits? The same way it will survive mankind. It will shrug us off, like a nat and continue doing what it has alway done. Were not trying to SAVE THE EARTH. The earth doesn't need saved. We are trying to save the earth the way we see it should be. Like you said, humans think in time spans of their life time. I'll take it a step further, mankind's existance is a blink on the time line of the earth. And we are powerless to do anything to stop the earth from changing, the way it has for millions of years.
Chris Harries 2 years ago

Agreed! Apologies if you felt my previous reply was a little strong. You make some very fine points here!

We are not trying to save the Earth, it will be absolutely fine without us. What we are trying to do is save our own species!
Cheryl Smith 2 years ago

the only arrogance of mankind is ignorance of the fact that we are polluting and therefore killing living creatures of both the sea and the earth that would probably not be dying where we not here.... we are however lucky enough to be here so we should respect not only our own species, but the billions of others we share this planet with, for the time being at least.
Martin Bjørn Christiansen 2 years ago

This is truly a great film, and the message/story that is being told is so deep and true, and 2010 will diffidently be the year where mankind need to act and not talk. Its by acting now we can stop what we are about to destroy. Imagine a world without the coral reefs, rain forrest, savannah etc. It would just be horrible.

Please go and see this short movie about how we humans should start and Look Closer on what happens around us in this very hour.

vimeo.com/7492031

All the best for the future
Kevin Blakely 1 year ago

Pedro, so your message to all of us is... since YOU don't believe we can make a difference we should all simply stop trying? Forgive me while ignore your ignorance. Succeed or fail the ONLY wrong course is to not try !
Dan Souder 1 year ago

I hope we can reverse what's happening and save the coral reefs.
molly oberholtzer 5 months ago

I'd like to use your coral reef footage for a video regarding the deforestation of haiti and the effects that has on the biodiversity and flooding (which in part sweeps silt/sediment out to sea and damages the surrounding coral reef)

may I? I was hoping to find a creative commons license by your video, be assured the footage will be given credit and its for non-commercial uses.