Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world
I&#x27;m shocked that the article didn&#x27;t mention this, but the mass die-offs we&#x27;re seeing are because the world&#x27;s coral reefs will be dead by 2050:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;environment&#x2F;environment-90-percent-coral-reefs-die-2050-climate-change-bleaching-pollution-a7626911.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;environment&#x2F;environment-90-per...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;great-barrier-reef-could-disappear-by-2050-why-2019-10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;great-barrier-reef-could-dis...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;trevornace&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;24&#x2F;70-90-percent-of-coral-reefs-will-disappear-over-the-next-20-years-scientists-say&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;trevornace&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;24&#x2F;70-90-per...</a><p>The effect of this is that 500 million pacific islanders will be forced to flee to Southeast Asia as their primary food source dies, which will lead to widespread political instability and possibly war. Not to mention that since 25% of sea life depends on reefs, their death will have catastrophic ripple effects throughout the ocean.<p>All due to runaway global warming acidifying the ocean with CO2. This was well-understood and warned about decades ago (I learned about it as a kid in the 1980s).<p>I sure wish a tech billionaire would do something about this. Their inaction on countless fronts, in fact their complacency in undermining progress on environmental causes in global politics, is one of the thousand reasons I got out of tech.