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I certainly don't think we're doomed or even that coral reefs will disappear even within the next hundred years. However, given the trend over the past 40 years I expect reefs as we know them today to unrecognizable, and probably not dominated by corals. There's also little doubt in my mind that our lifestyles in general are going to change dramatically. They have to. The current rate of resource use is unsustainable.
Unfortunately, I think that's going to essentially doom the hobby unless we make a lot of changes ourselves, though I'm not sure it will happen within the next 20 years. Legislation severely limiting the collection of livestock is probably coming within that time frame. Either we'll speed up the efforts to close the lifecycle of the animals we keep (which I don't really see happening) or the hobby will have to be content with the limited number of species currently available.
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