Anyone ever read John Calhoun's "rat utopia experiment no.25 " it's an experiment that I think all people should learn about.
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Hello; A bit hard to describe in brief. Essentially a series of experiments with rats and mice with disturbing implications about overpopulation and it's consequences.
Sounds like it has some relevance to what we are experiencing in todays world. I'll have to check it out
Hello; I used some of the results as part of my biology lessons back when I was teaching. Yes there does seem to be heavy implications about human overpopulations. I guess many are not comfortable applying the mice/rat experiment results to human populations, but they got my attention in that sense.
Disturbingly relevant, you can see certain parallels in today's society, even though it was done some decades ago.
It would seem the societies of both mice and humans can have very similar problems
welp, 28 hour work shift but home for now, few beers and bed, starts again Sunday night.
This relates to your comments in the other thread. I agree man its a balance with todays issues. Like you said no way we can support 10 billion
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