It’s Not About Planting A Million Corals. Or Even A Billion Corals.
It’s About Planting The First Corals That Will Survive The Next Mass Coral Bleaching Event.
Without significant reduction in CO2 emissions to prevent global temperature increase above +2°C, coral reefs will become extinct in our lifetime. Reef-safe sunscreens and marine protected areas will not save them.
But we can buy them some time. With selective breeding and assisted evolution, it’s possible to engineer thermal-tolerance into coral larvae. Collect gametes. Fertilize. Engineer billions of embryos with resilience to climate change. Then…