Yep, animals and nature create their own catastrophes. We're just looking at animals right now, at a single point in time. Millions of species went extinct before we even existed and some of that would have been one species wiping out another, or stripping their habitat of all the resources they needed for survival or they launched nukes at each other... okay, maybe not that last one.
I don't think as animals our nature is any worse than other animals or that they have more of an awareness of their own balance than we do. It's just we got really good at some things they aren't so good at. If foxes had the tech to stripmine rats into extinction and then starve due to lack of food, I'm pretty sure they'd do it. I think our advances outstrip our collective intelligence to use those advances sometimes. It could be the death of us all. Or it could save us all. The planet will die eventually with or without us. It's a question of when. But we could be one step ahead of all of that and have made plans to be long gone by that point.
I don't think as animals our nature is any worse than other animals or that they have more of an awareness of their own balance than we do. It's just we got really good at some things they aren't so good at. If foxes had the tech to stripmine rats into extinction and then starve due to lack of food, I'm pretty sure they'd do it. I think our advances outstrip our collective intelligence to use those advances sometimes. It could be the death of us all. Or it could save us all. The planet will die eventually with or without us. It's a question of when. But we could be one step ahead of all of that and have made plans to be long gone by that point.
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