<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jarmitage</author><text>I met a coral researcher last year who said we just have to get over the fact that it’s all over for coral as it exists now, and try to learn as much as possible from it so we can re-design it later ourselves. They were very calm about this suggesting they were way past the grieving period. It was quite shocking to me.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Great Barrier Reef headed for ‘massive death’</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2018/08/world/great-barrier-reef/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DavidPiper</author><text>We&amp;#x27;re going on holiday to the Great Barrier Reef in a few months. I think it&amp;#x27;s quite likely to be the first and last time I see it in any state worth visiting for many years.&lt;p&gt;Irrespective of how successful or unsuccessful the far-rights are in maintaining Australia&amp;#x27;s CO2 emission levels, I believe it&amp;#x27;s already too late - we&amp;#x27;ve crossed from &amp;#x27;recovery is possible&amp;#x27; to &amp;#x27;rebuilding is the only way&amp;#x27; and that will take decades if not centuries.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2F;opinion</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Great Barrier Reef headed for ‘massive death’</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2018/08/world/great-barrier-reef/</url></story>