A tale about what’s killing coral and making sponges the dominant animal
By W Goodwin
In 1897 the Irish poet William Butler Yeats was writing about his fellow poet William Blake when he said, “There have been men who loved the future like a mistress, and the future mixed her breath into their breath and shook her hair about them … so in the beginning of any work, there is a moment when we understand more perfectly than we understand again until all is finished.”
If Yeats had been alive today, he might have written those words with Don…
