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A species that grows so much that it outgrows its own habitat will often end up destroying said habitat due to overpopulation, with ramifications usually going way past the species that actually triggered it.

That's why not everything that is natural is automatically "good"/sustainable.

Because if we go about it that way we might as well never have come down from those trees, as humans we can think ahead and conceptualize possible long-term consequences of our actions. That's an advantage not many animals have, we best make some proper use of it.




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