i go to a field and take 25% of the 100 shrooms growing there, ive left plenty
no problem.
a.n nother follows my footsteps later that day, takes 25% of the 75 mushrooms there, he left plenty so no worries
Miss B Hayving pops out that evening and takes 25% of the 56 mushrooms, not many left she thinks, but ive only took a quarter of whats here, no worries
you see where im going?
its not the laws thats the problem, or the landowners or our increasingly undiverse natural resources
the problem is too many people in too small a space
as Agent Smith (in The Matrix) said,
"I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realised that you aren’t actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with its surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we... are the cure."