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Originally Posted by charles brough
Yes, that's what happens. It is even worse. Rats and mice over-crowding ends in a dramatic change in behavior. There develops a behavioral breakdown. Gangs of mice invade family warrens, some of the rats become trance like. Other gangs pick on each other and rape. They sink into what has been called "a behavioral sink."
As we crowd each other for diminishing resources, we also are beginning to exhibit behavioral deterioration not only within our societies but also between them and between nations.
charles
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You know... sometimes nature does something like -has a lightning strike hit and set off a fire- that wipes out the entire forest and leaves a nice level playing field of fertilizer (aka ash). Then the new little seeds get to compete and rebuild a new forest. It takes several hundred years, but pine trees have an edge in that their offspring come in a fire protected shell which actually only opens up when subjected to fire (a pine cone). Oak trees provide sneaky food to squirrels that kindly bury their offspring beneath the ground where the fire can reach them. Fruit trees provide more sneaky food that birds eat and then deposit miles away with more fertilizer.
Certain viruses provide the same level playing field in the form of a pandemic that burns across a population "like wildfire" - and interestingly enough any creatures that survive the fire/plague are generally immune to any reinfection. So then they and their offspring have another big level playing field to grow back into (regardless of how rich your parents were, EVERYONE is needed to work with LOTS of opportunities at that point).
So if you speed up the still frames a bit... maybe our species is just a wildfire blip on the terrestrial timeline [we have only been here what... 50,000 years or so?]... that will wipe everything out on the planet and let just the hardy ones that are built to survive the fire (like cockroaches) compete to rebuild the place after the "fire" is gone.
... or maybe I am just blowing smoke
