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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1486460
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1486460
I have been fortunate, as a scuba diver, to have seen a lot of beautiful coral. I can only hope that efforts like this allow my grand children, and their grand children the same.
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Congratulations on your work so far. There are a lot of people in South Florida working hard to protect and repopulate our reefs. People like the author are our heros.
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First, wonderful and meaningful work you all are doing.
It brings to mind one of the greats, Aldo Leopold.
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.
Aldo Leopold, [A Sand County Almanac]
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A botanical analog is the Botanic Gardens Conservation International, which does similar cryopreservation of seeds and plant tissues and cells. I’m certainly glad people are doing this with corals but horrified at the expected temperatures and conditions to follow.
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