SDG 14: Life Below Water - Tip of the Iceberg?
By Avinash Bhat, Ivy Maji, Kriti Chandra, Nidhi Dwivedy, Puja Shankar, Sugandh Group 5, Section A, PGDM (BM) 2019-21 Batch Symptom – The Tip of the Iceberg: We enjoy the fact that the world around us is bright and beautiful with colours. We have some social adjectives associating colours with happiness – the more vivid and bold they are – more of joy they represent. Imagine what would happen if, suddenly all the colours vanish. We wake up to find that the whole world has turned black & white. For many millions – both humans and marine organisms – precisely, this has been happening as a result of Climate Change. The colourful corals we admire are bleaching away into grey. Coral bleaching is just one of the symptoms – albeit the most visible one – which shows that few have exploited the marine resources to their limit and it is time to think long term. (D’Angelo, 2016) But the fading colours of the corals are just the tip of the iceberg. Corals are one...