The forty year old theory of Gaia seems to be exhibiting some visible repercussions. The slow but steady rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is something humanity is guiltily accepting as its responsibility despite human reluctance to fool around reversing it. If the assault on the planet were just this there would be problems enough to worry the most optimistic dude. Humanity's excesses are unfortunately not so singular.

Ogden Nash had an acute eye for the type of behaviour humans are exhibiting when he looked at termites.

The Termite
Some primal termite knocked on wood
And tasted it, and found it good!
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.

Cousin May and the rest of civilization with all the voraciousness and lack of foresight of termites are industriously working away to fall through the floor.

One of the many ways humanity is changing life on this planet is to gobble up sea turtles, a slightly unfortunate but not terribly outstanding depredation, one might think, as long as one is not a sea turtle. And one can be absolutely sure that the sea turtle lobby in the US Congress has nowhere near the clout of the one from Israel. But the sea turtles' diet favours jellyfish, something that one would think appeals only to the Japanese who seem to be capaciously hungry for anything that wiggles. And so the rapid decline of the sea turtles is consequentially resulting in a rapid rise in the jellyfish population. Well, you might say, so what?

Here's what. This indicates the jellyfish are celebrating and reproducing at a rate to appal any decent Christian Puritan who dislikes anyone having a good time. One cannot be positive, of course, that jellyfish are as appreciative of the mechanics of reproduction as the average human regularly demonstrates at the average Hollywood production. But I would guess so. Guess, because I have never been much accomplished at reading the emotions of a jellyfish.

Well, what the hell. That's far away in the Pacific. But here's another item, which demonstrates that jellyfish are obviously out to conquer the world. Sicked on humanity, no doubt by Gaia who finally conned to the idea that human beings are very bad medicine. Sharp, they are, no doubt and flashy and in their own way, and like a traditional barrel of monkeys, they can be quite amusing (although noisy) as they ritually butcher each other. But they chop up forests to print their newspapers and wipe their behinds and soon, to drive their stinking vehicles. So they really are too messy to keep as pets.

Jellyfish are quite decorative like pulsating lampshades and, once out of water can make slimy messes which is surely an aesthetic fault. But it looks like they're on the rise and Gaia really likes them.