Nature will not let overpopulation happen. Disease, human nature, and natural disasters will handle that quite effectively. Disasters are part of the process just like hurricanes are part of the natural process of coral reef development. The destruction allows for not just population control, but also ensures natures, or god’s, best design to succeed. Nature is always testing its creatures survival. Every living system on this planet is subject to natural cyclical destruction. Its the reason we don’t have dinosaurs walking around. Things may get out of wack on a small scale but eventually that hurricane comes to create room for new life or space for the efficient to continue its life cycle.
In a way, viruses do the same. They are the great genetic playground where DNS is passed, swapped, and traded like toys. Again we see nature, or god, in action. Those that survive devastating viral infections are deemed worthy of survival. There is a set of rules at play, in this game, that puny little humans cannot begin to understand or comprehend. Like the Bible says about the nature of God, man cannot understand. The actions of viruses is dictated by an all knowing, endless set of mathematics that always plays for balance, which is why I hate genetic manipulation so much. It is essentially breaking the rules and we lack that cosmic knowledge and foresight to see the possible ramifications of playing god, or mother nature. We see things on such a tiny scale, whether looking at the past and present. God, or nature, looks both ways into infinity. That is what makes predictions like this so laughable. These predictions, like that of climate research, use data sets that are tiny enough to be deemed insignificant and unreliable. That is why they are typically wrong. Nobody knows what is around the corner but God and or nature.
“Disasters are part of the process just like hurricanes are part of the natural process of coral reef development. The destruction allows for not just population control, but also ensures natures, or god’s, best design to succeed. Nature is always testing its creatures survival. Every living system on this planet is subject to natural cyclical destruction. Its the reason we don’t have dinosaurs walking around. Things may get out of wack on a small scale but eventually that hurricane comes to create room for new life or space for the efficient to continue its life cycle.
from wiki “Fire Ecology”
Campaigns in the United States have historically molded public opinion to believe that wildfires are always harmful to nature. This view is based on the outdated belief that ecosystems progress toward an equilibrium and that any disturbance, such as fire, disrupts the harmony of nature. More recent ecological research has shown, however, that fire is an integral component in the function and biodiversity of many natural habitats, and that the organisms within these communities have adapted to withstand, and even to exploit, natural wildfire. More generally, fire is now regarded as a ‘natural disturbance’, similar to flooding, wind-storms, and landslides, that has driven the evolution of species and controls the characteristics of ecosystems.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_ecology
I have seen predictions of very dire outcomes from Petroleum spills at sea Alaska, California) yet they have proved that Mother Nature heals the planet quite quickly and thoroughly, and life goes on.
Apparently in the case of forest and prairie fires, there are new life forms getting started, before the cinders of the fire are cool.