Progressive Wednesday

This Wednesday: Coral Relief

March 28th, 2007 by Progressive Wednesday

Problem:

One of the places that I desperately want to visit before I “become one with nature” is the Great Barrier Reef. A series of over 3,400 individual reefs and 900 islands along the east coast of Australia, it covers a distance longer than the west coast of the United States. That’s over 2,000 kilometers for those of you keeping score at home. It’s the world’s largest coral reef system. You can see it from space. Even “outer space.” It’s big, and beautiful. It’s one of the seven natural wonders of the world. And it’s dying.

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Make Progress:

Coral reefs all over the world are disappearing at an alarming rate. Over a quarter of the worlds reef systems have died or been severely damaged, and many scientists say that the remaining 75% will be gone in the next 30-50 years. Most of this destruction is human-related. That’s the bad news. The good news is that we can do something about it.

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