This is one of the finest paragraphs ever penned, article citation to follow:
"Like a karmic device come to punish our planetary transgressions, jellyfish thrive on the chaos humans create.
Overfishing wipes out their competitors and predators;
warmer water from climate change encourages the spread of some jellies;
pollution from fertilisers causes the ocean to lose its oxygen, a deprivation to which jellyfish are uniquely tolerant;
coastal developments provide convenient, safe habitat for their polyps to hide.
In addition, the great mixing of species transported across the world in the ballasts of ships opens up new, vulnerable ecosystems to these super-adaptors."
True that.
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