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"Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you mu

"Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area." Sadly Agent Smith was not wrong there.

strken 2mo ago
He was wrong. Animals don't "instinctively" reach a natural equilibrium when they're introduced to a new environment. They eat all the available food, die off en masse, and repeat, until the food sources which were vulnerable have all gone extinct and the only things left are able to survive. See mouse and grasshopper plagues, feral cats, etc.
- teo_zero 2mo ago
  Sometimes yes, sometimes an equilibrium is finally reached. The fact that we see more equilibrium than extinction is purely "survivor's bias".
Ygg2 2mo ago
> Sadly Agent Smith was not wrong there. Wachowskis just don't know any better. You think it's air your breathing now? Oxygen? More like plant waste product. Also no ecosystem is in perfect harmony. It's basically jenga tower where you pull a piece on a long enough scale it looks eternal.
- flyby25 2mo ago
  Yes. Its really only the sea floor that sees any semblance of ecological stability
  - Ygg2 2mo ago
    Not even the sea floor. When whale carcass falls to the sea floor, it creates its own mini-ecosystem that lasts as long as the corpse lasts (couple of decades).
M95D 2mo ago
And then Agent Smith realized that multiplying is good...