Anohni Hegarty will soon travel to the Great Barrier Reef to document its worsening condition amid rising climate challenges. Excited yet apprehensive, she draws a parallel between the beauty of the reef and the somber task she faces. The reef, crucial for biodiversity and oxygen production, has experienced severe coral bleaching due to marine heatwaves. Anohni contemplates how society mourns sudden disasters but lacks rituals for slow ecological declines, urging the need for ceremonies that honor the significant loss of the reefâs vibrancy.
When a sudden catastrophe happens, like a terror attack or natural disaster, humanity has worked out ways to process grief and anger en masse: funerals, memorials, protest, activism.
The gigantic reef is not well: it has been hit by six mass coral bleaching events in the past nine years, an alarming trend driven by record marine heatwaves.
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