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except that's not at all true.
just look at invasive species that are only kept in check by human intervention.
Most invasive species are there because of human activity to begin with.
How many of those invasive species were introduced by human activity though
Those are almost all caused by humans. They will reach equilibrium eventually, but we took them from an environment where that equilibrium had already been reached and put them somewhere else. Almost certainly they'll eventually have predators. It's just a question of how much damage they cause before then, and how long that takes.