The Real Reason Why Human Population Must, and Will, Crash

The reason why there are thousands of times more small fish in the ocean compared to sharks is very simple: sharks eat a lot more, so they come at a very high resource cost to the ecosystem. Nature has designed sharks so that they have far fewer viable offspring than smaller fish, not only so that they don’t completely decimate the ecosystem, but so that sharks themselves can survive as a species. If they were to breed out of control, sharks would face a population bubble followed by a spectacular population crash, and most certainly sudden extinction.

This incredible wisdom in the design of species’ populations emerged over millions of years of evolution of course, which tested out various scenarios. In the course of evolution there were predators who over-multiplied and did go extinct. There were prey who under-multiplied and also, went extinct. Ecosystems ultimately achieved incredible balance, and this is how, despite how dynamic the food chain might be, today we have more than 10 million species who, under normal circumstances, face absolutely no extinction threat whatsoever. Because when an ecosystem is undisturbed, each population is given a very specific maximum and minimum quota, which is maintained by the ecosystem and patrolled by the Earthnet of Things itself: by other species, the climate, and the physical environment. If anything becomes disturbed in these parameters, all species populations also become disturbed, resulting in extinctions until a new equilibrium is reached, this time with a different set of species and a different set of population quotas.