Thoughts on the coral question

Florida's coral reefs are in poor shape, reports Reuters, but in that respect they are no different to other reefs across the world.

I used to think that environmentalism had such a relatively poor following in the US because of that country's size: it's easy to ignore the effects of your own activities like carbon emissions when your country is so large that those effects are barely noticeable. But when you consider that Florida's reefs are the only ones of their kind in North America, it's just astounding that nothing more is being done to protect them.