Our Dying Reef

In October 2012 a disturbing News item appeared on our TVs, sandwiched between a piece about the latest innane political scandal and gossip about the next minor celebrity to visit our shores. The newsreader calmly revealed to us that it had been determined that, due to a combination of overfishing, pollution, starfish predation and warming seas, fifty percent of the Great Barrier Reef was now dead, and half of the remainder will be dead within a decade. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I couldn't believe that we had allowed this to happen in our lifetimes. I didn't know what else to do, so I wrote this song...

Note that there are two versions presented here. One is a video of Loosely Woven performers, another is audio only, simulated on my computer...