The fate of coral reefs is bleak, a morass of insurmountable and radical environmental change, harkened forth from generations of human greed and lack of foresight. Algae smother, choking coral beneath while zooxanthellae are expelled, intolerant of mere centigrade warming, causing bleaching and starvation. Ocean acidification weakens mineral uptake, slowing growth, threatening corals further. Nets drag, obliterating centuries of progress, a harrowing sight, reflective of hubris and inhumanity that permeates and fouls that which is touched. Toxins from waste, plastics, and oil desecrates, increasing the ever-growing probability of trophic cascade, an unrecoverable collapse in which life as we know fails. But hope remains in adaptive radiation and collective efforts of humans that know, care, and act...