Coral
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We can now grow construction materials in the elegant way nature does, just like a
coral
reef.
Coral
reef in New Caledonia.
100 percent of the
coral
may be wiped out before 2050 because of global warming.
And you know how
coral
are very sensitive to temperature, and are very important for the biodiversity of the sea.
So we had our own miniature rainforest, a private beach with a
coral
reef.
Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
They've borrowed the recipe from the
coral
reef, and they're using CO2 as a building block in cement, in concrete.
Now it's reversing that equation, and actually sequestering half a ton of CO2 thanks to the recipe from the
coral.
For those of you who've been there, fantastic
coral
reefs, fantastic diving, fantastic snorkeling.
It's built entirely of
coral
reefs.
And on top of the
coral
reefs are sand banks.
Anyway, one tree is situated right next to a beautiful
coral
reef.
And they would see a
coral
head, maybe 10 feet away, and start moving over toward that
coral
head.
And I don't know whether they actually saw crab in it, or imagined that one might be, but whatever the case, they would leap off the bottom and go through the water and land right on top of this
coral
head, and then the web between the arms would completely engulf the
coral
head, and they would fish out, swim for crabs.
There's no coral, algae growing on it, and the water's pea soup.
So this rainwater is flooding down the hillside, carrying with it sediments from the construction site, smothering the
coral
and killing it.
It's got living coral, fish all over the place, crystal clear water, and you go, "How did that happen?"
We're getting terrible harm to some of the
coral
reefs, like off of Australia.
I'm an ecologist, mostly a
coral
reef ecologist.
And I ended up in Jamaica, in the West Indies, where the
coral
reefs were really among the most extraordinary, structurally, that I ever saw in my life.
The other thing it shows you is that, although there's this beautiful forest of coral, there are no fish in that picture.
Those reefs at Discovery Bay, Jamaica were the most studied
coral
reefs in the world for 20 years.
And the view of scientists about how
coral
reefs work, how they ought to be, was based on these reefs without any fish.
And we published a paper in Science, the first time that anybody ever described the destruction on a
coral
reef by a major hurricane.
The
coral
reefs of the north coast of Jamaica have a few percent live
coral
cover and a lot of seaweed and slime.
And that's more or less the story of the
coral
reefs of the Caribbean, and increasingly, tragically, the
coral
reefs worldwide.
What that was, was a forest of sponges and coral, which is a critical habitat for the development of fish.
All that white
coral.
If Joe jumped in a
coral
reef, there are many things the alien could see.
Very unlikely, Joe would jump on a pristine
coral
reef, a virgin
coral
reef with lots of coral, sharks, crocodiles, manatees, groupers, turtles, etc.
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