I remember Evil Klevil.
Could it refer to “carrying capacity?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_capacity
I’ve had “Special K” for breakfast.
I’ve read about the K-hole, from ketamine abusers/explorers.
But, I hadn’t heard the term “K-level”.
“human population k level”
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That was true of our barn cats when I was growing up.
So, it’s not like K-cups?
Bill Gates, is that you?
Sounds like the Malthusian Theory of Population.
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What wonderful school was that, and when was that?
There was a video game I used to play years ago that I seem to recall had a K level.
God: Noah, have I explained the K-level to you?
Never heard of it before today.
With this new knowledge, I’d say the communist RATS and Chinese-bought Monica Media have definitely gone well beyond their K levels and use by dates.
We keep increasing it with technology.
The planet could easily support 10 times as many people as we have now. But if the food were to stop the cities would die pretty fast as their K-level is externally sustained.
Humans are no where near that level.
If I remember that far back the experiments were done on rats where they were put in an enclosed environment where all their needs were met. As expected the population just kept growing. The strange thing is that they became apathetic and then quit reproducing.
Humans are not rats, humans do not live in a controlled environment, and humans don’t have all their needs met.
Humans do create environments that become overcrowded and careless with sanitation (do you hear me San Francisco and Los Angeles) and opportunistic diseases will spread.
I firmly believe this virus was modified in a Chinese lab and either by accident or design got loose.
It became a world wide problem because China allowed Chinese to return to various parts of the world carrying the virus with them knowing they were sick.
So this is not a naturally occurring problem created by human overpopulation
For example, the cities turn liberal -> and sure cities have certain practical considerations that would leave them to want to govern themselves differently, but there's more to it. People change when they are a denizen of a city, and then move out, and then move in.
So I think YES unconscious things happen to individuals and to the mob, the collective.
But PART of this is just a practical matter. Many hundreds of years ago we weren't so connected, so physically viruses were probably springing up left and right and not travelling the whole world.
How many mass wipeouts of inner African people's happened that were simply never recorded, but also never escaped Africa?
Would there have been the type of wetmarket ... or for the conspiracy minded, plots ... or rationally ... bioweapon research way back when?
And is it a function of population then or civilization and technology?
The problem NOW is that ONE mistake could doom everyone. That wasn't true 2000 years ago.
My answer would be yes-ish -> it's not EXACTLY a K value, but behaves like a k-ish value-ish.
True in principle, but I don't think guaranteed to play out in black and white.
But note that we are the most advanced ever, and there is SO MUCH anxiety and snowflakism. Is advancement itself a problem for the longevity or at least happiness of the species? Longer lives but less happiness, joy, enlightenment, God? I don't know. I'm totally happy (as much as you can be).
Yay!
Is it anything like the gray zone?
Yes. The one study I came across was about the squirrel population on an island.
I think it was a seven-year cycle, driven by too many squirrels eating too much of the vegetation to sustain itself.
As the population decreased that allowed the vegetation to grow back, allowing the squirrel population to increase until it was consuming beyond the plant growth rate...
My stereo was at “K-level” the other night...”K, that’s loud enough!”