Climate-Related Death of Coral Around World Alarms Scientists

As much as I share your sentiment any catastrophe will almost certainly be dismissed as natural or, my personal favourite "act of God". And the massive loss of innocent species and their worlds is too high a price to pay for that education.

Also, it bears noting that these facts have been well understood for some time now. Its simply being ignored because it is inconvenient. Its a great pity that catastrophe is needed to force the masses to force the powers that be to affect change, all the while those powers were very much aware of the coming crisis. How could they not be ?

Awesome. Now you could help other people do similar things.

They've banned plastic bags in the UK too.

Of course any wasteland or street is still littered with fast food plastic, plastic bottles and the excessive packaging found in most supermarkets.

We have slightly effective recycling schemes for a tiny proportion of what we use, and massive amounts of recycling end up shipped to the developing world to be dumped. Manufacturers of TVs, appliances, IoT toys and any thing else using plastics aren't required to own their debris at end of lifespan.

So, as is typical with modern politics, we've had a token gesture that affects the public but utterly avoids the real issue.

The oceans are doomed unless we grow up and own our debris as a species.

I try to understand people, and your despair is loud and clear here. Change is inevitable for sure, man or nature (man is nature, BTW). The sun will devour the inner planets in 4 billion years, but it is burning brighter each year, and in 1 billion years, it will boil off the oceans, coral and all. To the stars if we wish to preserve humankind.

There is a lot of complaining that nothing is being done. There should be some basic steps aside from accepting your problem to begin with, and that is to study some solutions:

#1. Propose and study solutions to match your conclusions of climate change - I don't find too much here compared with the amount of continuing studies on the climate.

And very important to get intellect to act -

#2. Who's going to pay for it, and on whose back falls the labor to implement #1?

Financial illiteracy is the big problem nobody talks about when discussing STEM deficiencies. You may need to build a skyscraper, but if you have 2 guys, 100 bucks and 1 day, you are going to be living in a lean-to, or a makeshift tent at the end of the day, no matter how much you complain or dream. I try and do my best to live minimally, because I prefer it, it makes me feel more peaceful and less distracted, and gives me plenty of time to read and think. I don't preach that all should live my way. On a more cheerful note, I found a Tweet today about Sweet Meteor of Death, but it was in reaction to people's political apathy or neuroses over the coming U.S. elections. An apocolyptic meteor for POTUS 2016! You should buy the tee shirt and smile!

I don't want to offend you, I've lived differently than I do now, but just brainstorming here: sounds like a big piece of property to be able to plant that much. Go minimal to your comfort level. I am not talking a yurt here on 1/10th of an acre, but minimalism can be very rewarding in today's super-size culture.