The Great Barrier Reef is pronounced dead after 25 million years

[Cal.]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/721115/Great-Barrier-Reef-dead-2016-after-25million-years-Queensland-Australia-Unesco-obituary

I'm so upset

[MB.]

smh even Cher's lived longer

[Cal.]

It should have been Cher.

[Crimson Dynamo]

and she stinks of fish

[Niamh.]

2016 has been cruel

[Northern Monkey]

Well it had a good innings.Can't moan at 25 million years.

[UserSince2005]

I saw it when it was alive:douf:

[Rob!]

Wasn't it one of the great wonders of the world? :(

[Greg!]

:(

[jaxie]

That's an environmental tragedy.

[Firewire]

The Great British Bake Off and now this

[Cal.]

It's bigger than the whole of the UK</3

[MB.]

Also it's not dead

[Mokka]

Also it's not dead

Yeah....if you read the link in the OP.... that would be obvious

[bots]

but even according to that article it says its not dead :think:

[Shaun]

Just a sensationalist headline really. 25% of it's died but the rest is in danger.

[Cal.]

The article has been edited since I posted it earlier thanks a lot.

[Ammi]

..I don't think it's sensationalist in that it's a good fore-warning...man is given/man depletes, destroys etc/sometimes for better quality of life and sometimes for personal gain/human is human and human will be it's own undoing....interesting article, Cal....

[Northern Monkey]

..I don't think it's sensationalist in that it's a good fore-warning...man is given/man depletes, destroys etc/sometimes for better quality of life and sometimes for personal gain/human is human and human will be it's own undoing....interesting article, Cal....

Hey don't forget woman:fist:
Equal opportunities and all that.Women can break stuff too:laugh:

[Ammi]

Hey don't forget woman:fist:
Equal opportunities and all that.Women can break stuff too:laugh:

..yeah but those breakages are usually more confined to the kitchen and not having such an effect on the planet though..:laugh:...(God forbid it would be a nail we broke though, now that would be devastation...)...

[Ammi]

...obviously disclaimer..:men have gorgeous names as well:....




...except Marsh, he needs a manicure I reckon....and why NM isn't it called a womanicure, hmmmmm....

[kirklancaster]

..I don't think it's sensationalist in that it's a good fore-warning...man is given/man depletes, destroys etc/sometimes for better quality of life and sometimes for spersonal gain/human is human and human will be it's own undoing....interesting article, Cal....

Either way, it goes to suggest that that 'Mankind The Destroyer' may not be CAPABLE of a symbiotic relationship with the rest of the organic life on this beautiful planet.

Among other charities, I support an organisation - Global Witness - whose aim is to save our Rainforests.

I do not understand how Corporate and Governmental GREED is allowed to destroy what are, the 'Lungs of The World', thereby creating or contributing to EVERY increasingly and massively dangerous ecological crisis which faces this planet.

'For Our High Life Today - We Robbed You Of Your Life Tomorrow' ought to be these corrupt and mercenary bastards slogan.

No one - not the perpetrators, nor we 'onlookers' - can claim 'ignorance', when that dreadful but inevitable day does come, when this planet, not just the Great Barrier Reef, is DEAD.

[Cal.]

Either way, it goes to suggest that that 'Mankind The Destroyer' may not be CAPABLE of a symbiotic relationship with the rest of the organic life on this beautiful planet.

Among other charities, I support an organisation - Global Witness - whose aim is to save our Rainforests.

I do not understand how Corporate and Governmental GREED is allowed to destroy what are, the 'Lungs of The World', thereby creating or contributing to EVERY increasingly and massively dangerous ecological crisis which faces this planet.

'For Our High Life Today - We Robbed You Of Your Life Tomorrow'ought to be these corrupt and mercenary bastards slogan.

No one - not the perpetrators, nor we 'onlookers' - can claim 'ignorance', when that dreadful but inevitable day does come, when this planet, not just the Great Barrier Reef, is DEAD.

That's so sad.

[Cal.]

We should all vote Green

[bots]

We should all vote Green

No

[Cal.]

A smidge rude.

[Ross.]

We should all vote Green

Tea

[Jamie89]

We should all vote Green

It's time to start a revolution!