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Can you draw parallels between the human impact on tropical forests and the human impact on coral reefs?

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Can you draw parallels between the human impact on tropical forests and the human impact on coral reefs?

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EDWARD: Very similar. Coral reefs have been called the rainforest of the sea, and probably they do indeed collectively have more kinds of organisms, mostly animal and symbiotic algae that live in the coral combined, but lots of other life forms, microscopic especially. And so the coral reefs of the world are like a rainforest, and an especially rich and precious resource. They, too, are disappearing due to human action from action change; they’re overheating corals, and that apparently causes bleaching. But also it’s just outright destruction from pollution, from dynamiting to collect fish and from building material of all things. It’s like dynamiting Notre Dame to be able to get enough rubble to build a supermarket nearby. It’s awful. But that’s happening to the rainforest at least the same rate worldwide as it’s happening to the tropical rainforest. Interviewer: What’s your feeling about our whole fishing industry in terms of the riches in the ocean? EDWARD: I think it’s a source of

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