CWA (Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder) asks "Why should you care about species extinction?" CWA brought a conference together of all different people in our society to ask this important question. The conferences held by CWA are free and open to the public. Lately, there has been word that a lot of coral reef have been dying. Coral reef may not seem like they play an important role in the aquatic life, but they do. Peter Hildbrande (an atmospheric scientist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) states that, "Coral reefs supply a lot of the basis of the food chain in the ocean. If we wreck up the climate, then we change concentrations of carbon dioxide in the air, which means we're changing the pH levels in the water, and that chemical change damages the shells in the coral. As coral die, that damage has effects right up the food chain to the large fish that we eat."
If one food source is taken away from another source then that species will become extinct and it will affect the fish that we consume. Sooner or later this drastic change will affect us negatively and we will be the main cause for the destruction of aquatic life and later on, other species.
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