 “Even if you admire fish only as fillets and enjoy water only as a drink,” say Gale Mead and Sylvia Earle, “there is reason to be concerned.” Coral reefs are among the sea’s most vital and enduring ecosystems. If they are in danger, then what of the oceans at large? “Meddle with the oceans, and you jeopardize Earth’s life-support system.”
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