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"Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and mul
by shekharshan 6y ago
"Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern... a virus" -- Agent Smith (The Matrix)
- luckylion 6y agoWell ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Matthew_Island#Mammals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Matthew_Island#Mammals
- shekharshan 6y agoExactly, we are getting overconfident in our ability to control the planet and its resources. I believe we are privileged to share this planet with other beings. Instead we treat animals like some kind of inanimate resource.
- graeme 6y agoYou missed their point. The link shows that reindeer also multiplied far past their carrying point. Agent smith is wrong, plenty of mammals will overshoot given the opportunity.
- glial 6y agoDoesn’t make it wise.
- scintill76 6y agoWell, it was with our help... > In 1944, 29 reindeer were introduced to the island by the United States Coast Guard to provide an emergency food source. The Coast Guard abandoned the island a few years later, leaving the reindeer.
- graeme 6y agoYeah. But, species will do it regardless. It’s an easy to point to example, that’s all. But species do it without human help. I remember caterpillars had boom bust cycles in my hometown as a kid. They’d eat all the leaves and die off.
- _Microft 6y agoSure, if there is one thing history has taught us it's that humans will not be contained. Humans break free, expand to new territories and crash through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh… well, there it is. Humans will find a way.
- kharak 6y agoThis so called equilibrium is created in nature by starvation or death by predators. Let's all go back to starvation and killing ourselves, for equilibrium.