BEND OVER AND KISS YOUR ASS
We live under the threat of
total devastation and the apocalypse purveyors are quick to describe how we all
will demise – except themselves, who are constantly preparing for the great
survival.
We have the nuclear
apocalypse; the asteroid apocalypse; the global warming apocalypse; the
pandemic apocalypse; the zombie apocalypse; and of course the God apocalypse
(God so loves the world the He kills everybody – except the chosen few.)
Now, according to MotherJones we need to worry about the Jellyfish Apocalypse. It seems that ocean warming along with
overfishing (decreasing the natural predators of jellyfish) has caused a jellyfish
population explosion and an expansion of jellyfish range and habitation.
This increase has been
startlingly visible throughout the Mediterranean and around Australia Sweden
jellyfish blocked the cooling ducts of a nuclear plant caused a shut down and
in Israel
It is estimated that world
wide there are 150 million people stung by jellyfish each year: 500,000 in the
Chesapeake Bay area and over 200,000 off the coast of Florida
There are very few fatalities from jellyfish stings though an encounter
can be painful. The box jellyfish found
around Australia
Jellyfish population
encroachment has not posed a problem in North America
at this time, but as ocean waters warm …
The solution seems pretty
obvious to me: increase predation.
Perhaps peanut butter and jelly fish sandwiches.
You have been warned!
the Ol’Buzzard
Peanut butter and jellyfish sandwiches, eh? LOL!
ReplyDeleteAnd just to let you know, Old Buzzard, I've started reading that book you recommended a while ago on your blog -- "Fool" by Christopher Moore. It's hilarious and I'm loving it!
I spent many summers swimming in the Delaware Bay as a kid. I'd usually get stung a couple of times a summer, but after an hour or two I would be fine. Applying wet sand to the sting seemed to help. Of course these were not the ferocious jellyfish that will come during the apocalypse.
ReplyDeleteCould scientists create a peanut butter fish? I noticed a comment of yours on Debra She Who Seeks and browsed over here.
ReplyDeleteI was strung years ago in South Carolina by a jelly fish. A paste of Vaseline and meat tenderizer relieves the pain. I ended-up with left over so we had tender steaks that night. Don't recall what happened to the Vaseline.
Great blog.