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  That’s how any organism grows, multiply until you reach carrying capacity and then increase capacity or die until equilibrium is reached again >
  
  Yeah but those animals arent making Earth uninhabitable >
  
  Because they lack the capacity too. But replace the earth with their host and you find out quickly that they do this too. >
  
  We won’t kill earth. We might mess up nature a bit, but it will eventually recover. >
  
  Yep. And in satellite photos, really urbanized and suburbanized areas look like scar tissue. >
  
  Earth has recovered from far more deadly events than humans. Asteroids, ice ages, earthquakes, floods, droughts etc. 
  We pretend to care about the planet but in reality we care more about ourselves.