Short answer? Because for all our enormous achievements as human beings, on some level we’ve barely evolved past yeast.
What’s the first thing yeast does when given a salutary environment? The population expands past carrying capacity until the environment is too befouled and the resources too exhausted to support the population — which crashes.
Our history has been one long struggle to evade carrying capacity… but then we expand past it… hence our need to disprove Malthus… oh, about generationally, these days.
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Short answer? Because for all our enormous achievements as human beings, on some level we’ve barely evolved past yeast.
What’s the first thing yeast does when given a salutary environment? The population expands past carrying capacity until the environment is too befouled and the resources too exhausted to support the population — which crashes.
Our history has been one long struggle to evade carrying capacity… but then we expand past it… hence our need to disprove Malthus… oh, about generationally, these days.
@Gordeaux -
You’re not wrong Gordon. Yeast has it lucky; it doesn’t have little budding geniuses who stave off the evil day for a few generations.