In Loomis Reef, part of the Great Barrier Reef, nearly all the coral has bleached and half of it is dead. The fish that used to live there are now gone.

The extractionists that rule Australia might respond, "Since the coral is doomed anyway, and the billion people who depend on it will soon starve, so why not burn all the coal?"

But it is not too late to prevent this act of mass murder, if we curb fossil fuel use with dispatch.