Great Barrier Reef historian Iain McCalman wrote that the new measures
“deliberately ignore the dire long-term threats to the reef that are contained in
the now unutterable words ‘climate change’”. “They are akin to investing in
cures for a patient’s skin diseases while ignoring their cancer symptoms,” he
wrote. As the experts make plain, any attempt to decouple the future of the
Great Barrier Reef from the quest to contain global warming is simply dishonest.
As another expert, Prof Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of the University of Queensland,
has said, we either “re-examine the current plans for unrestricted coal exports,
taking proper account and responsibility for the resulting greenhouse emissions,
or watch the reef die”.

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