Why We Don’t Need to Save the Barrier Reef

Almost a decade ago in the Solomon Islands, I noticed a " SAVE THE BARRIER REEF" bumper sticker on the dinghy of a visiting Australian yacht. Initially I thought it was a joke - someone poking fun at the hysterical fringe of the environmental movement. Surely no-one could seriously believe that one of the oldest, richest, most robust and least exploited or threatened of ecosystems needed to be saved. Saved from what?