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Originally posted by CSflim
War is not needed for population control.
The population level of a species is self regulating, and will evolve in such a way so as to maintain itself.
A shortage of food/resources, will increase the selection pressure, and thus lower the population.
A population will never grow so large that the environment can't sustain it, and thus cause it to become extinct (except in rare circumstances, and in those cases war isn't going to help anyway).
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OK, now read the second sentence of my post.
War is in fact one of the mechanisms by which a population regulates itself and the exact point I'm making is that war checks population before it gets to the rare cases where it expands so fast that it uses up all its resources.
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