psychicscubadiver on 15 February 2016
No animal acts within the 'natural cycle' if given the chance. When predators are removed from an ecosystem, prey species overpopulate and strip the landscape of everything they can eat until starvation reduces their numbers. If given enough nutrients algal blooms can wreck local ecosystems.
The idea that humans are somehow unique in their relation to the earth or not part some poorly defined 'natural cycle' is an idea perpetuated by people who have no idea how biology or ecology works. They are typically the same people who believes things like 'humans are the only animal that kills their own kind' despite thousands of examples to the contrary.
