Pressure hones a population. Remove the pressure, the fat builds up. You're basically describing the Rat/Mouse Utopia experiments.
What supposedly happens if you give handouts to wildlife? The same thing that happens when you give handouts to humans, except the humans can get more vicious and insistent about their perceived entitlements.
In the long run, it's a self-correcting problem, as the next generation will be too useless to even feed itself.
It's broadly called "getting spoilt rotten". A whole population of spoilt rotten people ....
Pressure hones a population. Remove the pressure, the fat builds up. You're basically describing the Rat/Mouse Utopia experiments.
What supposedly happens if you give handouts to wildlife? The same thing that happens when you give handouts to humans, except the humans can get more vicious and insistent about their perceived entitlements.
In the long run, it's a self-correcting problem, as the next generation will be too useless to even feed itself.
It's broadly called "getting spoilt rotten". A whole population of spoilt rotten people ....
What would shutting it all down look like? It seems impossible.