Mete Bounds

A species can overgrow the limits of its niche and overrun the environment if not held in check by limiting forces.  What holds us back? --not enough!  Limiting forces can come from within us, from Nature-within, the 'self''-limiting Eco-Self.  Will these forces be conscious and ego-determined, or of source unknown and autonomous-- or perhaps rather both-- as perhaps it's up to the Eco-Self, which integrates the ego and the Unbeknownst, to hold the chaotic-destructive human species in check, to set limits, and keep us within the mete bounds of Eco-order. 

Unbeknownst= the Unconscious, the Mystery.