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An article recently published in the Guardian newspaper in the UK featured several life scientists sharing their stories of intense emotional experiences born of direct engagement with ecosystemsnatural worldsthat were patently collapsing all around them.One subject of the article, Steve Simpson, marine biologist at the University of Exeter, recalled a career studying coral reefs at Lizard Island, on eastern Australia's Great Barrier Reef.Returning after a major bleaching event in 2006, Simpson noted that 'it was completely devastating to see individual corals that we knew and loved and had spent so long studying, now dead'.For him, perhaps, the reef had been rendered a haunted domain that was little more than 'a tragic graveyard of historic coral reef life', a testament to loss across individual, local, regional and planetary dimensions. 1 From cataclysmic climate change to ecosystem degeneration and the consequential disappearance of species at an accelerating rate, it is not
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