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Yep. The thing that keeps any particular form of life in check are predators. A large amount of plant growth promotes herbivore populations, which promotes carn
by SturgeonsLaw 4y ago
Yep. The thing that keeps any particular form of life in check are predators. A large amount of plant growth promotes herbivore populations, which promotes carnivore populations. If carnivores or herbivores overeat, they crash their own food supply, causing their own population to decline due to food scarcity. Ecosystems reach a form of homeostasis this way.
Humans have eliminated anything even close to being their predator at any significant scale, except our own behaviour. As a result, we run the risk of exhausting our own food (read: resource) supply.
- mellavora 4y agoinsufficient food or insufficient oxygen also do the job. I'm assuming you include 'disease' as a predator (i.e. viral/bacterial/microscopic actors).
- cseleborg 4y ago> except our own behaviour Oh, well, no risk of that predator disappearing anytime soon, then...
- imtringued 4y agoYes this is why humans must figure out how to keep themselves under control. If they don't then something else will do the job for us and we won't get a say.