Plentiful Irony

Look at the symbiotic model in nature - the delicate balance between predator, prey, and population. It is a common enough belief that a population never expands beyond its food supply's ability to sustain them. If they did, they would starve and die off. Yet look at humanity - the only organism on the planet that exists in such a state of overpopulation. And we will go on overpopulating because we place no limits on ourselves. We are producing food for a population many times our current size. And millions are starving. Yet our first solution is "produce more food" rather than population control. We are living outside of the order that every other creature on the planet has lived under since the beginning, and we're suffering for it.

[via This Great Arument]

And in the comments to that post:

It really isn't so much a matter of whether or not we are willing to follow the planet's rules. We can't "give up dominion." We've never had it. Not completely. The earth is much bigger, and much more devastating than us. It can live without us. We can't live without it. One way or the other, the planet will win. Whether or not we also win depends on whether we are on the same team with the planet. Otherwise at the very least, we will all lose.

--Wanderer