Excellent and passionately delivered lecture Chris. Although this focused on the plight of the GBR, the message given was appropriate to governments of all nations. Here in the UK, the recent government approval for further licences to undertake hydro-fracturing, that could extend over 50% of the British mainland! Yet we 'ratified' COP22 (?) Not to mention cutting incentives to renewable energy in favour of further off-shore oil prospecting and the expansion of Hinkley C Nuclear facility. . The Canadian Tar Sands debacle being simply another example of Political Cognitive Dissonance.