Thanks for your excellent and alarming reporting. I am in deep grief about all of this and most personally about the dying coral reefs. I have been lucky enough to dive and snorkel through some of the most amazing coral reefs in the world. And now, if they are not completely gone, they are not even close to what they used to be.
I feel your grief, Susan. My nature experiences have mostly been terrestrial, in the mountains or swimming and kayaking lakes. Bicycling in upstate NY mountains was my three time a week go to, hikes further away whenever possible. No doubt your snorkeling lifted you as my mountains lifted me. Over the years the bird song lost was noticeable. The peace I found was tinged by what I could see happening. I totally get it.
Human hubris is the vile scourge of the planet. We have never given nature the reverence she deserves, or the legal standing she needs to defend against our insatiable greed — despite the obvious fact that we are entirely dependent upon nature’s bounty for survival. The fact that we only consider a situation to be urgent when it threatens us is pathetic. The notion that all living things deserve equal access to life and resources is anathema. I grieve every day for all life.
We are a wildly arrogant species, clever, but not wise. Many indigenous people exhibit far more respect and reverence for the intricate miracles of nature providing what we need and respecting her bounds. It's fundamental truth that something must die for something else to live, but we have far exceeded what's moral or justifiable. We should live as lightly as possible on our now beleaguered Earth and anyone who has had a relationship with an animal knows they are self-aware and unique, not automatons. The Earth as a whole is also a living being with rights and not treating her as such is proving fatal.
Your paper resonated with me. I too remember the big voices of climate change, Jacque Cousteau and Born Free, Rachel Carson and many others. Spending my youth on the Great Barrier Reef, brings sorrow and grief as to how stupid and greedy humans are. We knew back then the dangers of ‘Global Warming’. sadly, here we are in the midst of collapse.
Thanks, Kathryn. Yes, that period of time brought many smart people forward who recognized the predicaments we were creating. The reasons we're collapsing come down to behavior at the most primitive level IMO, the survival instinct most destructively exercised through endless and ever faster technology. It appears this is a fatal combination.
Your thoughts have triggered my time in education and science. Yes, there were so many warnings now that you have highlighted technology and how it changes culture. I use to read a lot of the philosophers, like Neil Postman, Jean Baudrillard, McLure? And here we are. It is all starting to make sense rather than something trendy to read. I think these guys were basically saying the message is no longer important but the medium.
I also remember in Australia, a few politicians brought in tiny lap tops and ‘all children will have one’. Well what a mess schools are in now with the the ‘Age of Technology’ Alvin Toffler was another one with Future Shock.
South Australia was hit by a big algae bloom last year. it has devasted the fishing industries and marine life. The media was instrumental in ‘nothing to see here, while those that sat amongst the devastation, the reality were amazed how government could do the smoke and mirrors. It is frightening. Thank you for your ‘Sane thoughts for Insane Times capture. The reality is here now.
A while ago I commented I would be reluctant to give up indoor heat and plumbing. I could add vaccines and sanitation to that list. Yet every improvement, even those I just named feed overpopulation and longevity, an undiscussed form of overshoot. At 65 part of my writing is to justify my existence!
Future Shock was in my father's library, but I don't believe I read it. However, other such Sinclair Lewis, Günter Grass and Kurt Vonnegut provided much guidance about human nature and absurdity. Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States struck a huge nerve with me later. I was lucky to be exposed to great authors. We are what we read, and I am very tired of politicians mucking around in education.
This is going to be a tumultuous year with a Super El Niño event on the horizon, farmers world over affected by droughts and flooding, and basic nitrogen fertilizer in short supply from the incredibly stupid attack on Iran. We "doomers" have been warning. The real doom has been the status quo system.
Survival instinxt or blind greed? I fear that it is capitalism and the growth of corporations that fuelled the pillaging and ultinately demise of our natural environment. We have more than enoigh for our needs, but not for the 1% to satisfy their greed.
Survival instinct or blind greed? Kind of a chicken or egg question that while interesting almost doesn't matter, because here we are on a planet growing too compromised to sustain us. 100% agreement about the one-percenters, but sheer population is a problem, too as well as longevity. We can't have it all, but the vast energy fossil fuels provided made it seem so.
Geoffrey, I can't thank you enough for the selfless work you are doing week after week. I urge all readers to help financially support your efforts if they are able or express their appreciation if they are not!
Thank you, Michael. For those who can afford a paid subscription, it's appreciated. I have no illusions about making a living from this work though, and remain adamant I won't paywall it or only allow paid subscribers to comment. I appreciate the community.
I appreciate that. Reaching as many people as I can is the goal. I do this for other writers, too, that are bringing important information to readers about overshoot and climate change so weakly handled in the MSM. We need as many good voices amplified as possible.
I share your pain. I'm a lifelong professional environmentalist which means I carry a background grief all the time from knowing too much about what is happening to this precious planet that I love. I have scuba dived and I have seen the diminishment. It is beyond sad. Hang in there. Being an environmentalist is not for wimps.
Thanks Cylvia, I'm aware of your environmentalist background and appreciate the encouragement. Most exhausting are family and friends who refuse to read me or engage with reality. They are free to talk about their lives, but no one wants to hear about what I'm doing with mine, lol. I handle them in small doses now. Thanks for reaching out. No worries, I'll keep going. You stay strong, too.
I did some scuba diving in S. Florida and the Keys. On a friend's sailboat in the Bahamas, we anchored overnight in the bay of a small island. My son and I made one dive and were both blown away by being able to see for a hundred yards underwater, it was so clear. 3 reefs off Ft. Lauderdale that you could shore dive to. Mankind is polluting the world for what? Money.
We visited our old haunts in S. Florida a few years ago. Both Miami Beach and the Florida Keys suffer clear day and king tide flooding. Both are supposedly raising their roadbeds with help from State and Federal funds. I wonder how that's going with deniers leading both governments? There is an undeveloped, mangrove area between Homestead and Islamorada where coral rock had been placed on both sides of US #1 to retard erosion. The water on both sides of the road appeared to be within a foot or so of the roadway.
IMO, the only sensible thing to do is move people away from the zones of danger, coasts being one of the obvious ones. The billions of dollars being spent won't stop the oceans from rising beyond our capacity to hold them back. The Greenland ice sheet was set in motion to melt completely in the late 1950s when we crossed 300ppm of CO2. I warned a friend to get out of Miami years ago. Salt water infiltration alone can destroy the value of your property. It doesn't take the drama of a hurricane to accomplish that.
Welp, we deserve what we feel-great depression, the depths of the Great Barrier Reef! If only the 'corporate personhood' could feel the grief of real humans. Those of us here, who care, will try to bear the responsibility of the Great behemoths who can do something about this, but apparently won't. I'll live what's left of my human existence trying none the less. Well said, 'way to go homo sapiens'!
The corporate personhood appears to see the elimination of most of us as the solution. The corporate personhood believes they can ride this out in their luxury bunkers. The corporate personhood is profoundly deluded and psychopathic.
But then there’s Elon saying that there’s plenty of room for way more than twice as many of us. And as far as he’s concerned, the more of us he has to sell his stuff to, the more money he makes.
I heard this before…that the real objective is to wipe the majority of us out so they can have the world to themselves. But I have to ask, in order for that to happen, they’d have to destroy most of the world wouldn’t ‘they’?
A very informative report about a very depressing subject. I hate to think about all of the species that will go extinct when their ecosystems are destroyed. Thank you, Geoff.
I am not someone prone to depression, but in my fifth year of this work have found little cause for hope. There are small victories here and there, but fall far short of the need to throw the entire system out and hugely reduce our impact on the planet by most obviously phasing out fossil fuels. The dilemma of course is that our lives depend on them even as they kill those innocent species, and ultimately Homo sapiens as well. Had we heeded the best voices of the late 60s and early 70s, we might have had a chance to transition to something more sustainable (degrowth) when the population was half of what it is now. We really blew it.
The entire premise of this war with Iran is ridiculous. And who is trump to say that Iran should never be allowed to have an atomic bomb? Countries all over the world have atomic bombs. North Koreans Kim Jong nut-ball, the man that trump said he “fell in love with” has about 60 nuclear weapons. Can you imagine what people would say if Joe Biden had said that he "fell in love"with the dictator from north korea? He would be eviscerated. But for trump this is normal speaking behavior. And let's not forget that five years ago, trump led a violent insurrection at our nation's capital.He told his supporters to go there and "fight like hell, or they wouldn't have a country any more". His supporters attacked the Capitol, attacked the police protecting the capitol, got into the capitol and carried confederate flags, And were shouting things like "Hang Mike Pence", because the vice president wouldn't agree to trump's demand that he decertified the true election results. Trump watched all the violence on tv and DID NOTHING. to intervene. Many police officers that help defend the capitol later committed suicide, because they were so traumatized by this ugly and horrible event. Trump is full of s**t, and is a crazy, demented, mean-spirited old man. And he's getting worse by the day. His next birthday he will be 80, and his declining cognitive health we'll be more and more obvious to everyone that listens to him. He gets his words mixed up and often he can't even pronounce things, let alone utter sentences that make sense. And it serves the American people right, in some ways, because they voted for this idiot maniac, Trump! TWICE! Trump said he would put an end to foreign wars and lower the cost of living for Americans. Instead, he he bombs, Iran. Even though they posed no imminent threat. and as a result of the war that trump started, the American consumer is paying much more money for gasoline, for housing, for transportation, for health care,and many other things. Trump is a clear and present danger to the United States and to the entire world. Quite frankly, I am ashamed to be an American citizen. It will take many years to undo the damage that Mitch McConnell and donald trump have done to the United States reputation, and its place in the world. This corrupt and idiotic Trump administration cannot end soon enough! Sincerely, David Morris who was born long ago in Fort Wayne Indiana.
Huh? I, too, was born in Fort Wayne long ago. Although I barely lived there, my grandparents had a house on Parnell Avenue, so I visited often.
The war is a disaster that the military has long analyzed as to be avoided. We have mucked about in the Middle East to the detriment of hundreds of thousands there since WWII, drawing new lines in the sand and displacing Palestinians to form Israel. We needed a military stronghold with all that oil to be accessed.
I am not expert enough to speak of Iran's culture of over 3000 years, but contemporary events include the CIA installing the Shah in 1953 who looted the country and disappeared people in the night with his SAVAK secret police. In 1979, there was good reason for the Iranian Revolution. Since then, the US has pressed endless sanctions and policies to marginalize the country and make it an enemy. We must always have an enemy to justify our expenditures on the military industrial complex Eisenhower urgently warned of.
Elections have become more and more controlled by big money with AIPAC hugely influential in supplying weapons to Israel enabling the Palestinian genocide.
The Democrats happily adopted neoliberal economics first forced on Chile in the early 1970s and spread like a virus world-wide. Citizens United was passed, and the Democrats essentially abandoned the middle class. This opened the door for the worst elected leadership with racist beliefs going back to the Civil War and beyond to expand their platform and scapegoat people of color when in truth it's class warfare now on steroids from the rise of billionaires. They wish to run the world and complete making puppets of governments.
The evisceration of the middle class led us here to electing the greatest flimflam man of all time who has appointed controllable morons and industry insiders to positions that are destroying the last remnants of the social fabric. This has also allowed much of the Project 2025 manifesto to be realized.
The illegal attack on Iran is the result of a steadily decaying, corrupt system that cares not one wit about human life or environmental destruction. We have managed to elect the most malevolent, greedy fools to the highest office. It's also important to remember Biden proclaimed himself a Zionist and enabled the Palestinian genocide with hundreds of billions in weapons. Both parties with possibly the exception of a few individual voices remotely speaks the truth or understands an inhabitable planet is on life support.
You spoke of your youth, and being out in nature then. I have a teen-aged nephew who has had an aquarium in his room for several years, because his parents wanted to encourage his interest in the ocean. They took him to the coast of Maine one summer, and toured the Greek Islands a year later, for the same reason. He said that his dream is to own a tropical fish and aquarium store. I have to grieve how this hurts all of us and one of us.
Fish tanks are mesmerizing, I had a large fresh water tank for years. Tropical tanks are unworldly beautiful and as I learned later actually easier to maintain. The downside is the fish in tropical tanks are often products of using explosives in coral reefs to drive the fish out and capture them. No need to tell your nephew this. I felt the hurt in writing this article. Aside from survivability, wantonly destroying beauty diminishes all of us.
Beyond sad. Thanks for writing Geoffrey
Yeah. This one breaks my heart more than any other I have written to date. Thank you, Jane.
Thanks for your excellent and alarming reporting. I am in deep grief about all of this and most personally about the dying coral reefs. I have been lucky enough to dive and snorkel through some of the most amazing coral reefs in the world. And now, if they are not completely gone, they are not even close to what they used to be.
I feel your grief, Susan. My nature experiences have mostly been terrestrial, in the mountains or swimming and kayaking lakes. Bicycling in upstate NY mountains was my three time a week go to, hikes further away whenever possible. No doubt your snorkeling lifted you as my mountains lifted me. Over the years the bird song lost was noticeable. The peace I found was tinged by what I could see happening. I totally get it.
Human hubris is the vile scourge of the planet. We have never given nature the reverence she deserves, or the legal standing she needs to defend against our insatiable greed — despite the obvious fact that we are entirely dependent upon nature’s bounty for survival. The fact that we only consider a situation to be urgent when it threatens us is pathetic. The notion that all living things deserve equal access to life and resources is anathema. I grieve every day for all life.
We are a wildly arrogant species, clever, but not wise. Many indigenous people exhibit far more respect and reverence for the intricate miracles of nature providing what we need and respecting her bounds. It's fundamental truth that something must die for something else to live, but we have far exceeded what's moral or justifiable. We should live as lightly as possible on our now beleaguered Earth and anyone who has had a relationship with an animal knows they are self-aware and unique, not automatons. The Earth as a whole is also a living being with rights and not treating her as such is proving fatal.
It breaks my heart that my children and grandchildren will never be able to experience what I did snorkeling as a kid in Puerto Rico where I grew up.
My daughter is in her early 20s. I fear for what she will have to deal with.
Your paper resonated with me. I too remember the big voices of climate change, Jacque Cousteau and Born Free, Rachel Carson and many others. Spending my youth on the Great Barrier Reef, brings sorrow and grief as to how stupid and greedy humans are. We knew back then the dangers of ‘Global Warming’. sadly, here we are in the midst of collapse.
Thanks, Kathryn. Yes, that period of time brought many smart people forward who recognized the predicaments we were creating. The reasons we're collapsing come down to behavior at the most primitive level IMO, the survival instinct most destructively exercised through endless and ever faster technology. It appears this is a fatal combination.
Your thoughts have triggered my time in education and science. Yes, there were so many warnings now that you have highlighted technology and how it changes culture. I use to read a lot of the philosophers, like Neil Postman, Jean Baudrillard, McLure? And here we are. It is all starting to make sense rather than something trendy to read. I think these guys were basically saying the message is no longer important but the medium.
I also remember in Australia, a few politicians brought in tiny lap tops and ‘all children will have one’. Well what a mess schools are in now with the the ‘Age of Technology’ Alvin Toffler was another one with Future Shock.
South Australia was hit by a big algae bloom last year. it has devasted the fishing industries and marine life. The media was instrumental in ‘nothing to see here, while those that sat amongst the devastation, the reality were amazed how government could do the smoke and mirrors. It is frightening. Thank you for your ‘Sane thoughts for Insane Times capture. The reality is here now.
A while ago I commented I would be reluctant to give up indoor heat and plumbing. I could add vaccines and sanitation to that list. Yet every improvement, even those I just named feed overpopulation and longevity, an undiscussed form of overshoot. At 65 part of my writing is to justify my existence!
Future Shock was in my father's library, but I don't believe I read it. However, other such Sinclair Lewis, Günter Grass and Kurt Vonnegut provided much guidance about human nature and absurdity. Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States struck a huge nerve with me later. I was lucky to be exposed to great authors. We are what we read, and I am very tired of politicians mucking around in education.
This is going to be a tumultuous year with a Super El Niño event on the horizon, farmers world over affected by droughts and flooding, and basic nitrogen fertilizer in short supply from the incredibly stupid attack on Iran. We "doomers" have been warning. The real doom has been the status quo system.
Survival instinxt or blind greed? I fear that it is capitalism and the growth of corporations that fuelled the pillaging and ultinately demise of our natural environment. We have more than enoigh for our needs, but not for the 1% to satisfy their greed.
Survival instinct or blind greed? Kind of a chicken or egg question that while interesting almost doesn't matter, because here we are on a planet growing too compromised to sustain us. 100% agreement about the one-percenters, but sheer population is a problem, too as well as longevity. We can't have it all, but the vast energy fossil fuels provided made it seem so.
Geoffrey, I can't thank you enough for the selfless work you are doing week after week. I urge all readers to help financially support your efforts if they are able or express their appreciation if they are not!
Thank you, Michael. For those who can afford a paid subscription, it's appreciated. I have no illusions about making a living from this work though, and remain adamant I won't paywall it or only allow paid subscribers to comment. I appreciate the community.
I posted this essay to Wonkette on Substack I hope it gets read and you get more subscribers, paid or not
I appreciate that. Reaching as many people as I can is the goal. I do this for other writers, too, that are bringing important information to readers about overshoot and climate change so weakly handled in the MSM. We need as many good voices amplified as possible.
I share your pain. I'm a lifelong professional environmentalist which means I carry a background grief all the time from knowing too much about what is happening to this precious planet that I love. I have scuba dived and I have seen the diminishment. It is beyond sad. Hang in there. Being an environmentalist is not for wimps.
Thanks Cylvia, I'm aware of your environmentalist background and appreciate the encouragement. Most exhausting are family and friends who refuse to read me or engage with reality. They are free to talk about their lives, but no one wants to hear about what I'm doing with mine, lol. I handle them in small doses now. Thanks for reaching out. No worries, I'll keep going. You stay strong, too.
I did some scuba diving in S. Florida and the Keys. On a friend's sailboat in the Bahamas, we anchored overnight in the bay of a small island. My son and I made one dive and were both blown away by being able to see for a hundred yards underwater, it was so clear. 3 reefs off Ft. Lauderdale that you could shore dive to. Mankind is polluting the world for what? Money.
Time is far more valuable than money. At one time I loved motorcycles, then returned to bicycles. They slow life down, which is a good thing.
We visited our old haunts in S. Florida a few years ago. Both Miami Beach and the Florida Keys suffer clear day and king tide flooding. Both are supposedly raising their roadbeds with help from State and Federal funds. I wonder how that's going with deniers leading both governments? There is an undeveloped, mangrove area between Homestead and Islamorada where coral rock had been placed on both sides of US #1 to retard erosion. The water on both sides of the road appeared to be within a foot or so of the roadway.
IMO, the only sensible thing to do is move people away from the zones of danger, coasts being one of the obvious ones. The billions of dollars being spent won't stop the oceans from rising beyond our capacity to hold them back. The Greenland ice sheet was set in motion to melt completely in the late 1950s when we crossed 300ppm of CO2. I warned a friend to get out of Miami years ago. Salt water infiltration alone can destroy the value of your property. It doesn't take the drama of a hurricane to accomplish that.
Welp, we deserve what we feel-great depression, the depths of the Great Barrier Reef! If only the 'corporate personhood' could feel the grief of real humans. Those of us here, who care, will try to bear the responsibility of the Great behemoths who can do something about this, but apparently won't. I'll live what's left of my human existence trying none the less. Well said, 'way to go homo sapiens'!
The corporate personhood appears to see the elimination of most of us as the solution. The corporate personhood believes they can ride this out in their luxury bunkers. The corporate personhood is profoundly deluded and psychopathic.
Like you, I choose to try.
But then there’s Elon saying that there’s plenty of room for way more than twice as many of us. And as far as he’s concerned, the more of us he has to sell his stuff to, the more money he makes.
I heard this before…that the real objective is to wipe the majority of us out so they can have the world to themselves. But I have to ask, in order for that to happen, they’d have to destroy most of the world wouldn’t ‘they’?
I’m not sure that makes sense.
A very informative report about a very depressing subject. I hate to think about all of the species that will go extinct when their ecosystems are destroyed. Thank you, Geoff.
I am not someone prone to depression, but in my fifth year of this work have found little cause for hope. There are small victories here and there, but fall far short of the need to throw the entire system out and hugely reduce our impact on the planet by most obviously phasing out fossil fuels. The dilemma of course is that our lives depend on them even as they kill those innocent species, and ultimately Homo sapiens as well. Had we heeded the best voices of the late 60s and early 70s, we might have had a chance to transition to something more sustainable (degrowth) when the population was half of what it is now. We really blew it.
Hope you are well.
I'm going to watch a nature documentary and try to cherish what's left instead of focusing on all that we have lost. Sigh.
If that helps keep you on an even keel, I'm all for it.
Thanks Geoffrey. Sad story. I am confounded that there is no mention of degrowth, only transition.
Degrowth requires a massive transfer of wealth, hence it's a non-starter.
The entire premise of this war with Iran is ridiculous. And who is trump to say that Iran should never be allowed to have an atomic bomb? Countries all over the world have atomic bombs. North Koreans Kim Jong nut-ball, the man that trump said he “fell in love with” has about 60 nuclear weapons. Can you imagine what people would say if Joe Biden had said that he "fell in love"with the dictator from north korea? He would be eviscerated. But for trump this is normal speaking behavior. And let's not forget that five years ago, trump led a violent insurrection at our nation's capital.He told his supporters to go there and "fight like hell, or they wouldn't have a country any more". His supporters attacked the Capitol, attacked the police protecting the capitol, got into the capitol and carried confederate flags, And were shouting things like "Hang Mike Pence", because the vice president wouldn't agree to trump's demand that he decertified the true election results. Trump watched all the violence on tv and DID NOTHING. to intervene. Many police officers that help defend the capitol later committed suicide, because they were so traumatized by this ugly and horrible event. Trump is full of s**t, and is a crazy, demented, mean-spirited old man. And he's getting worse by the day. His next birthday he will be 80, and his declining cognitive health we'll be more and more obvious to everyone that listens to him. He gets his words mixed up and often he can't even pronounce things, let alone utter sentences that make sense. And it serves the American people right, in some ways, because they voted for this idiot maniac, Trump! TWICE! Trump said he would put an end to foreign wars and lower the cost of living for Americans. Instead, he he bombs, Iran. Even though they posed no imminent threat. and as a result of the war that trump started, the American consumer is paying much more money for gasoline, for housing, for transportation, for health care,and many other things. Trump is a clear and present danger to the United States and to the entire world. Quite frankly, I am ashamed to be an American citizen. It will take many years to undo the damage that Mitch McConnell and donald trump have done to the United States reputation, and its place in the world. This corrupt and idiotic Trump administration cannot end soon enough! Sincerely, David Morris who was born long ago in Fort Wayne Indiana.
Huh? I, too, was born in Fort Wayne long ago. Although I barely lived there, my grandparents had a house on Parnell Avenue, so I visited often.
The war is a disaster that the military has long analyzed as to be avoided. We have mucked about in the Middle East to the detriment of hundreds of thousands there since WWII, drawing new lines in the sand and displacing Palestinians to form Israel. We needed a military stronghold with all that oil to be accessed.
I am not expert enough to speak of Iran's culture of over 3000 years, but contemporary events include the CIA installing the Shah in 1953 who looted the country and disappeared people in the night with his SAVAK secret police. In 1979, there was good reason for the Iranian Revolution. Since then, the US has pressed endless sanctions and policies to marginalize the country and make it an enemy. We must always have an enemy to justify our expenditures on the military industrial complex Eisenhower urgently warned of.
Elections have become more and more controlled by big money with AIPAC hugely influential in supplying weapons to Israel enabling the Palestinian genocide.
The Democrats happily adopted neoliberal economics first forced on Chile in the early 1970s and spread like a virus world-wide. Citizens United was passed, and the Democrats essentially abandoned the middle class. This opened the door for the worst elected leadership with racist beliefs going back to the Civil War and beyond to expand their platform and scapegoat people of color when in truth it's class warfare now on steroids from the rise of billionaires. They wish to run the world and complete making puppets of governments.
The evisceration of the middle class led us here to electing the greatest flimflam man of all time who has appointed controllable morons and industry insiders to positions that are destroying the last remnants of the social fabric. This has also allowed much of the Project 2025 manifesto to be realized.
The illegal attack on Iran is the result of a steadily decaying, corrupt system that cares not one wit about human life or environmental destruction. We have managed to elect the most malevolent, greedy fools to the highest office. It's also important to remember Biden proclaimed himself a Zionist and enabled the Palestinian genocide with hundreds of billions in weapons. Both parties with possibly the exception of a few individual voices remotely speaks the truth or understands an inhabitable planet is on life support.
You spoke of your youth, and being out in nature then. I have a teen-aged nephew who has had an aquarium in his room for several years, because his parents wanted to encourage his interest in the ocean. They took him to the coast of Maine one summer, and toured the Greek Islands a year later, for the same reason. He said that his dream is to own a tropical fish and aquarium store. I have to grieve how this hurts all of us and one of us.
Fish tanks are mesmerizing, I had a large fresh water tank for years. Tropical tanks are unworldly beautiful and as I learned later actually easier to maintain. The downside is the fish in tropical tanks are often products of using explosives in coral reefs to drive the fish out and capture them. No need to tell your nephew this. I felt the hurt in writing this article. Aside from survivability, wantonly destroying beauty diminishes all of us.
With you in the grief about this terrible destruction
It's gut-wrenching. Ocean life is magical. Aside from its loss accelerating ours, the disregard for beauty and other life forms is ghastly.
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