where do you stand on saving our reefs??? serious questions for you to ponder on:)

[gobytron]

guys, there will be no reefs at all by 2050....maybe 2100 if we're lucky.

Reefers will play almost no part in it's demise and if every one of us (not just canreef, I mean all of us) stopped this hobby today it would not change a thing.

ideals are nice, and they look great on paper or here on the 'net but the facts are the facts so keep all this nonsense up if it helps you sleep at night.

Just enjoy it while you can, in your living room or otherwise.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/ar...ort-warns.html

Just one very small example of what I mean, lots more rsearch all the time painting more and more dire pictures...

or for those of you who dont like to click links...an excerpt from www.treehugger.com
First the news was that if we don't change our habits around fishing, all the world's fisheries will be wiped out by 2050. Now, experts guess that if we don't significantly change our interaction with the ocean, coral reefs will be all but wiped out by that same time. J.E.N. Veron, former chief scientist of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, writes that human pollution of the water, as well as human-generated carbon dioxide emissions which are causing ocean acidification and rising ocean temperatures are rapidly killing off corals. He notes that without a radical change in our behaviors and priorities, we will be left with a bleak future for the oceans, and consequently, ourselves.