This picture shows the effects of climate change on a Staghorn Coral reef bed over the time span of less than a year. This picture is from the production of Chasing Coral and was taken off the East coast of Australia. The side-to-side comparison of before and after, as well as the ability to capture the atmosphere to land barrier, is what makes this picture so meaningful to me. This topic is important, because things under water, for the most part, are out of sight for society and we don't realize what it happening. This picture can also come across as despiteful because the bleached side shows miles of these elegant pure white structures, and many people do know how to interpret that. The fact is that they aren't dead yet, the coral has just lost its symbolic relationship with the photosynthetic organisms that reside with the coral and will be on the path to death without the nutrients from this relationship.
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