Well that's because all of the safety nets in society that keeps us from just letting people die.
Once you remove wolves from the wild, deer populations just explode until they literally destroy the entire area and cause their own extinction (as well as everything around them).
So this is just literal basic biology at work, and proof that human empathy is probably its greatest weakness.
R?
R strategists produce lots of offspring and care for them little, K strategists produce fewer offspring and care for them a lot.
And R's population is exploding while K's is declining. Hmmm...
Well that's because all of the safety nets in society that keeps us from just letting people die.
Once you remove wolves from the wild, deer populations just explode until they literally destroy the entire area and cause their own extinction (as well as everything around them).
So this is just literal basic biology at work, and proof that human empathy is probably its greatest weakness.
Hard R