Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au.Monday September 15Reef SOS“Yesterday we read in the Geraldton local newspaper of Premier Roger Cook’s welcome announcement of increasing the area of Marine Park dedicated to protecting Ningaloo’s waters and increasing funding for studying the problems associated with rising temperatures and resulting coral damage by bleaching events. Yet on the very same page of the newspaper was a paid advertisement by Chevron delimiting a huge marine area adjacent to Exmouth where it will be engaging in exploration and drilling for gas and oil. The advertisement is asking for public opinion, honestly where is the credibility? Climate change is real, reefs are dying up here. We are on a caravanning trip to the Ningaloo region and have been snorkelling off from Exmouth and we saw the alarming state of the coral, covered in green algaes. We will be opposing this project, but how many people will not even know it’s happening?”Izzy LuescherNot so united“Surely the ‘United States’ of America is now an obvious misnomer. They are obsessed with red and blue states. The politics of the two political parties ensures they will never agree on anything, making it impossible to have an equitable, thoughtful democracy. 77,303,568 Americans voted for this.Steve Bentley, Camira QLD