Nanny State PING!
The use of sunscreen versus tanning oils goes up, and skin cancer rates increase exponentially.
Is that length of sun exposure related, or is it the chemicals in the sunscreen?
Remember, it’s the same people that want us to stay inside all the time that also perpetrate the AGW hoax, and every other socialist lie we’ve been fed for the last century.
EVERY SINGLE ENVIRONMENTALIST PREDICTION OF THE LAST 60 YEARS HAS BEEN WRONG!
Aruba has free sunscreen-dispensers at their beaches to protect their coral reefs.
I don’t have a huge problem with this.
Oil-based sunscreens really do degenerate the coral reefs and mess up sensitive places.
A few bucks more for organic sunscreens seems like a good investment to me. I have been making that investment for the last 10 years. It cost me all of $20 or $30 or so.
The science is quite real on this one. Thousands of swimmers with oils on their bodies really screw up the coral. I have seen it with my eyes.
Come on, FReepers — this is low hanging fruit where we can do our part.
There is a credible case that certain chemicals in sunscreen are harmful to coral reefs. Unfortunately, the problem extends to a wide class of consumer and agricultural products and the wide-scale harm they cause to marine life.
Cool. New mantra: SAVE THE HUMANS!
Well, is Miami still dumping raw sewage into the ocean - which was destroying the upper key reefs?
The coral bleaching effect has been blamed on ‘global warming’, sun screen ingredients, ocean temperatures rising (which they actually haven’t), and other ‘man made’ issues.
There have been claims that the US has lost half its coral , which has yet to be proven, due to these man-made factors. All of which have been guesses and ‘studies’ not based on science but on liberal Luddite ideology that man and his machines are horrible for the planet.
No study has proven a correlation between man and coral. Feeble minds jump to illogical conclusions as they have on this issue. They might as well conclude the clouds cause the sun to rise in the east because the clouds in the morning come from the east.
There is scientific proof that the chemicals in most products cause damage to coral. Even sugar can do that. Coral is a very fragile ecosystem and even a reduction in nutrients in the water can cause coral bleaching, an effect where marine life in the coral dies so the coloration decreases, which returns coral to its natural white coloration.
Worldwide, there has been an increase in coral bleaching. That is the only fact that is provable by inspection of coral reefs. The liberal Luddites, however, lie about it and claim there are only reductions in areas where humans use sunscreen. Not true. Coral bleaching is being seen throughout the planet, even in remote places where humans have no activity. To blame coral bleaching on human activity is without scientific merit. The coral bleaching could be a bacterial infection across the oceans and a perfectly natural occurrence of nature.
More needs to be known, but we’ll never solve this riddle by first concluding man did it. We did the same thing with the ozone hole, blaming man and banning the chemical CFC. We banned the chemical CFC and the liberal Luddites shut up about the ozone hole which still remains. It never was man-made.