March 22, 2024
The coral reefs went through quite a good bit last year. The overwhelming heat of last year has them on the brink of collapse.
In case you didn’t know, coral reefs are needed for marine life, they use the reefs to live and eat as smaller organisms congregate around the reef, which invites larger animals and so on and so forth.
Reefs also protect coastlines from erosion and coastal communities from natural disasters.
No archipelagic country like those in the Caribbean can afford to live without the protection of a strong reef system.
The climate change that has induced the overwhelming heat of 2022 and 2023 has cooked our coral reefs to the point where they have bleached themselves into uselessness. It is quite an unfortunate thing we are doing to the planet.
On the other hand, the drought that is drying up the Panama Canal is too killing us. Goods cannot flow freely through the canal, and this is affecting global trade. Your regular items like your can opener or even a tin of tuna is probably an additional few cents more because the canal has caused a shortage in supply, raising the cost of these items.
The West desperately needs the canal to be working properly again. But this too, is a climate change phenomenon.
We hope for a solution that can be made. But for these things, only God can come down and make things right. We just have to pray he shows us his mercy.