Distinguished Professor of Biology at Macquarie University Professor Lesley Hughes, an ecologist and member of the Climate Council, described the package as a “band-aid on a broken leg”.
The Australian Marine Conservation Society water quality expert Jaimi Webster agreed, saying that while the funding would help tackle local threats, “it does not address climate change – the greatest threat to our reef”. Global coral cover is forecast to decline by 95 per cent at 2 degrees of warming, and 70 per cent under 1.5 degrees. Scientists believe the world is likely to breach 1.5 degrees sometime after 2030 even if we make immediate and drastic cuts to emissions, which would at least stabilise the climate late-century.
“Implicit in that question is a suggestion that Australia’s emissions are the only emissions that are responsible for the state of the reef and that’s clearly not the case,” she said.
Perhaps talk to some of the big corporations mining and dumping their crap in the ocean then... but then you’d lose your funding hey?
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