Okay, so it’s not *quite* dead, but for all the attention it’s getting, I really don’t fault the person who started this all.
If you don’t want to take it from me or this video, then take it from Snopes:
“While the threats to the Great Barrier Reef are well documented and not controversial amongst the scientific community, no scientist has actually proclaimed the reef (which, in reality, is a massive sprawling collection of organisms) to be “officially dead”.
“It is also unclear what organization or individual would, like a doctor in an ER, have the authority to pronounce a massive ecological community “officially dead.”””
