15.10.2025, Moscow.
Statements by international scientists about the “point of no return” and the impending death of coral reefs at a 1.4 °C temperature increase sound like a sentence for the planet. However, behind this dramatic rhetoric lies not only a scientific debate but also a political and economic calculation. Climate anxiety has long turned into an instrument of global influence, where ecology serves as a cover for the redistribution of resources and technological control, Rossa Primavera News Agency editorial reads.
In a report by 160 scientists, it is stated that with the current 1.4°C warming above pre-industrial level, reefs will pass a tipping point irreversible “extinction,” and risks are increasing for the Amazon, polar glaciers, and ocean currents. Independent reports confirm that the topic of the “tipping point” is being largely discussed ahead of COP30 (the 30th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change), which will take place from November 10 to 21, 2025, in Belém, Brazil.
Yes, coral reefs are an invaluable ecosystem. Yes, their degradation is alarming. But it is worth asking several question. Why now? When global warming has allegedly reached a critical level? Why is the main focus not on adaptation or biodiversity protection, but instead on demands for radical cuts in industrial emissions? Especially given that, as skeptically minded scientists point out, corals have demonstrated far greater resilience to temperature increases than previously assumed.
In reality, the climate agenda does not benefit everyone. As analysts from Foreign Affairs and Le Monde diplomatique show, the main beneficiaries are countries that have already completed industrialization: the United States, EU member-states, and Japan. Their economies have long transitioned to services, digital technologies, and financial flows. For them, the “green” transition is not a sacrifice but an opportunity to consolidate technological superiority, control “clean tech” markets, and introduce new trade barriers such as the CBAM carbon tax.
Meanwhile, developing countries, such as China, India, Vietnam, Brazil, are forced to choose between growth and ecology. Their industries are labeled “dirty” by definition, even when producing goods for Western consumers. Thus, the fight against CO₂ becomes a mechanism for maintaining global inequality.
Moreover, as The Spectator writes, emission-reduction policies are increasingly being used as tools for accelerated deindustrialization even within developed countries. Factories are shutting down, jobs are being cut, and in their place arise “green” startups and ESG consulting that bring profit to the financial elite but produce no real goods.
In this context, the report on coral reefs is not merely a scientific warning but an emotional lever designed to accelerate decisions favorable to a narrow circle of players. Meanwhile, as The Wall Street Journal notes, the scientific consensus on CO₂’s role in climate change is not as monolithic as it appears. Natural climate cycles, solar activity, and ocean currents all remain out of the discussion because they do not fit the simple narrative of “humans are to blame, they must pay.”
If humanity truly wants to save the coral reefs, it should invest in scientific research, marine reserves, and reef restoration technologies, not in carbon markets and “green” bonds. For now, ecology is turning into a currency of geopolitics, and coral reefs have become instrument of that game.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
