This can lead to terrible mistakes, even self-destruction.

We fall in love easily, but often with things that don't matter or even harm us, things that numb us to the thousands of ever more discernible darts we are shooting at our own planet. Our dancing turns too simply to fighting, often for the wrong reasons.

Increasingly dire headlines drew her back to jellies, as unprecedented jellyfish blooms toppled ecosystems and collapsed the worlds most productive fisheries. More than a decade ago, she left the sea and her scientific career behind to raise a family in landlocked Austin, Texas. Our collective emotions are still hot, however. Juli Berwalds journey into the world of jellyfish is a personal one. We have struggled through our pubescence and reached the moment when our youthful good looks and passion are colliding with our need to grow up. We can protect this stunning planet we all share if we grow a collective spine.Īs humankind, we have emerged from the youth of civilization. We have the capacity to communicate, to learn quickly, to change course, to create and re-create, to make decisions for the health of the oceans, to speak up. But we are also endowed with gifts of even greater power. We have reached a point in history when we impact the chemistry and biology of our planet. Debate and disagreement done right force us to find new ways to answer questions, to look for mistakes, to reevaluate how we understand the world we share. Progress occurs when opposite sides engage with each other rather than talk past each other. “It's tempting to think that when we look at the world, we see what's in front of us, but in reality we can see only what our eyes allow us to see.

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