Yeah i don't think recycling and buying a Tesla is gonna be enough at this point.

I feel like we keep seeing worse and worse predictions and noons does anything impactful about it. Like I heard all the ocean life will be dead by 2050 a few years ago but nothing has really changed.

I've come to assume that the projections about worst case scenarios are the starting point of what I expect to happen.

Under a worst-case scenario, half of coral reef ecosystems worldwide will permanently face unsuitable conditions in just over a dozen years, if climate change continues unabated. That is one of the findings from new research published on October 11, in PLOS Biology by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers. Unsuitable conditions will likely lead to the corals dying off and other marine life will struggle to survive due to disruptions in the food chain.

“While the negative impacts of climate change on coral reefs are well known, this research shows that they are actually worse than anticipated due to a broad combination of climate change-induced stressors,” said lead author Renee O. Setter, a doctoral student in the Department of Geography and Environment in the College of Social Sciences. “It was surprising to find that so many global coral reefs would be overwhelmed by unsuitable environmental conditions so soon due to multiple stressors.”

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001821

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They have been saying similar things for decades now. I love coral reefs but don't cry wolf every year.