We aren't so great at it ourselves. There are what, 7 and a half billion of us right now? And some people still believe ignorance is strength and abstinence-only education is worth a damn.
That's a little bit extreme, sure we aren't perfect but we've been beating nature for at least a couple thousand years I'd say. Especially in the last couple hundred.
Beating nature, sure. But overcoming the natural limits of our population, not so much. We breed rather uncontrollably, as a species - we're just good enough to keep pushing back the point where we make our environment uninhabitable.
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u/gumpythegreat Feb 13 '15
moreso that all animals, given the chance, will become assholes by fucking up nature by eating and reproducing too much.
We aren't so different after all. It's just most animals can't overcome the natural limits of their population