The Myth of Balance in Nature
<p>The “balance in nature” myth is one of the more persistent examples of environmental wishful thinking. In 2009, biologist John C. Kricher was rightly compelled to pen an entire book debunking it. The myth reflects our understandable desire for a stable world with a climate and the habitats that suit us and the other species we like. But the myth is also another form of Edenism, the desire for a paradise and the constant fear (even alarm) that we are violating paradise.</p>
<p>Scientifically speaking, there is no equilibrium in nature. Instead, there is constant flux, minor and massive disturbances, the striving of all life forms to survive and reproduce, and (of course) competition among various species. All of this comports with Darwin’s theory of biological evolution.</p>
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