Mark Bevis on The Seneca Effect

"men are programmed to become belligerent if there is overpopulation." Yes, some population stats for everyone: Population of Gaza: 1700AD: 10,000 (probably maximum sustainable carrying capacity) 1995: 650,000 2023: 2.3 million Population of Israel: 1995: 4.5 million 2023: 9 million Both sides appear to have religious based policies encouraging maximum family sizes. If those population trends had continued without limits both would be around 18 million by 2050. The Gaza-Israel conflict was inevitable just due to population pressures, left longer it would have been Gaza invading Israel. Utterly unsustainable population growth on both sides, it is not going to end well. Half the Israeli population lives in Tel Aviv. One 1MT ground burst nuke could wipe out half the population of Israel, no wonder they're scared shitless of Iran, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi, etc of having nukes. Not that that justifies the madness of Netanyahu and his clan. The only good news in this is that climate change will be the great leveller, by 2050 if not sooner much of the Levant (as well as parts of Iran) will be unliveable in on scale. The Israeli settler programme might take on a new meaning, although how they will twist their religious dogma to justify moving Israel to Siberia or Finland will be interesting.