I'm also not so sure if it's productive in the long term to portray it as a fight at all, but short-term it probably helps to give these initiatives a little bi

I'm also not so sure if it's productive in the long term to portray it as a fight at all, but short-term it probably helps to give these initiatives a little bit of personality (people like to partake in things that feel competitive). Watching the presentation, however, 'escalating conflict' does not seem to be a core message here. It would certainly feel more natural if the squirrels and badgers were equally well represented. When we reach that point squirrel identity will become just as diluted as badger identity. As long as you're a minority, you can stick together by defining it as a common trait, but that sort of thing will dissolve very quickly in larger numbers. Being a squirrel (or being a badger) is not an identity, but it may seem that way as long as you're the only squirrel in a badger forest. This is all a bit long-winded way of saying "I think it will be alright in the end".