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So What Gives With The Giant Jellyfish?

I remember walking on the Texas beaches and seeing jellyfish washed up on the shore. Less pleasant are memories of being stung by a Portuguese Man of War.  Both of these little 6 inch in diameter critters are no match for their 6 foot in diameter cousins that are invading the coast of Japan… and when I say invading, I mean that the fishing industry, particularly in small Japanese villages is collapsing. People who make their livings catching fish are now literally putting their fishing boats into dry dock because there are no fish to be fished. It’s so bad that some Japanese researchers are trying to figure out how to get people in Japan to start eating jellyfish. Yuk!

So what’s causing these jellyfish to thrive?

It turns out that the jellyfish really like warmer waters and even waters that have a bit of toxic acidity. Fish don’t. I don’t either. But those big giant bubbly masses of protoplasm think that warm acidic waters are like going on a vacation in the Bahamas. They love it. Hmmm….

So where do the acidic warm waters come from. The best theory is that the acidity comes from industrial pollution and the warm waters come from (you guessed it) global warming. The fantasy that is being perpetuated is that pollution and global warming is no big deal. The cold scientific facts just don’t support that fantasy.

But What’s That Got To Do With OWS?

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The message here is the increasing gap in the United States between the rich and everyone else. The fantasies being perpetuated here are that giving money to the wealthy will make everyone else wealthy and that you can be wealthy too if only you work hard enough. The cold economic facts just don’t support those fantasies.

… but there is a common thread here that tell us we’ve got to turn around our thinking if we want a better world

Find out the common thread by clicking here

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