He points out that coral reefs worldwide are estimated to cover nearly 300,000 square kilometers; the prospect of treating this large area is, he says, mind-boggling.
Here's a prospect that squares with reality.
McCarthy-Scarsbrook also describes Amor as "the tightest man I know", but the pair are clearly good mates who are relishing the prospect of squaring up to the famously physical Wigan pack.
Later, in a session on societal implications, University of Manchester philosopher John Harris and Catholic theologian Hille Haker of Loyola University Chicago in Illinois squared off over the prospect of editing the germline.
This Soviet urban ideal was eventually realised on the west bank of the river, with its wide prospects, squares and promenades, and abundance of five-storey "Khrushchev" flat blocks, laid out on a grid and connected to the factory side by streetcars and four major bridges.
Joshua Smith, the urbane Cleveland Orchestra flutist, initially squirmed at the prospect of the square dance.
The new Greenlandic government is now enthusiastically granting licences to oil firms, such as ExxonMobil; companies are already prospecting over 137,000 square kilometres of the nearby seas.
So we were back at square 1, and the gloomy prospects of living in a world in which Buscemi was considered cool did not abate.
For their final session this week, the prospects were scheduled to square off against one another for sparring.
In turn, he said, his company is negotiating leases on three deals totaling 600,000 square feet and has two more prospects for 200,000 feet.
"There may be 15,000 prospects in a 2km square area — we only need only 1,000 (signed-up) customers to make a branch".
