Climate change threatens millions who live off sea

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

MANADO, Indonesia (AP) — Around 100 million people risk losing their homes and livelihoods unless drastic steps are taken to protect Southeast Asia's coral reefs, which could be wiped out in coming decades because of climate change, a report said Wednesday.

The Coral Triangle — which spans Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and East Timor — accounts for a third of the world's coral reefs and 35 percent of coral reef fish species.

If carbon emissions are not cut by 25 percent to 40 percent by the year 2020, higher ocean temperatures could kill off vast marine ecosystems and half the fish in them, according to the World Wildlife Fund, which warned that 100 million people earning a living off the sea could be forced to leave inundated coastlines and find new jobs.

The group, which presented its 220-page study at the World Ocean Conference, cited 300 published scientific studies and 20 climate change experts.



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Stories like this make me want to eat the barrel.

:-(

[BeFree]

1. Two sides to this for hope

There is the fundie side which says that the wicked world is doomed to be destroyed by God and all the fundies will be raptured away. So if you think you will be raptured away there is hope for you.

Then there is the heathen side which hopes like hell evolution makes adaptation possible in this changing world.

[Baby Snooks]

2. But those 100 million do not matter..

Neither do we. The only people who matter are the oligarchs living in their $50 million penthouses in Manhattan. Who found oligarchy pays well. Who believe somehow the coming catastrophe will not affect them in their penthouses. If nothing else, it will merely take care of the overpopulation problem. We have too many people on the planet as it is.

And if the sea overtakes Manhattan they will just buy gondolas and pretend they're living in Venice. Which it probably will. Which they probably will. Life is grand when you're an oligarch. Looking down at the masses below from your penthouse. And not caring what happens to them. There are too many of them anyway. Some need to go.

The two Americas. The two Worlds. The have-mores and the have-nots.