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LettersGreat Barrier Reef must keep World Heritage status to shame humanity
- The reef’s World Heritage status must be maintained to bear testimony to the crass nonsense that we humans as a species are capable custodians of our planet
- Rather than spending billions on trips to the moon and Mars, the world’s powers must try harder to repair our earthly home
I refer to “Barrier Reef becoming a paradise lost” (June 24), which reports the devastating effects to the coral of the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s eastern coast caused by warming ocean water temperatures.
The threat to the Great Barrier Reef and all other coral reefs around the world is increasing so quickly that we run the risk of losing healthily functioning reefs globally within decades.
Along with tropical rainforests, coral reefs are the most bountiful and diverse environments on our planet. Without their durability, all natural life will be threatened. Though it might surprise some people and governments, humanity cannot function in isolation.
Global warming is a damning indictment on all industrial nations. I find the Unesco threat to remove the World Heritage status from Great Barrier Reef abysmal, and it smacks of politics as the heating of the seas and oceans is not only Australia’s problem.
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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef outlook drops to ‘very poor’ amid climate change threat
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef outlook drops to ‘very poor’ amid climate change threat
To the contrary, its World Heritage status must be maintained to bear testimony to the crass nonsense that we humans as a species are the capable custodians of our planet.
Rather than spending billions on trips to the moon and Mars, the world’s powers need to try harder to repair our earthly home.
Christian Rogers, Wan Chai
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