This is making the assumption it’s bad for the environment, but, I imagine it is when sharks and other large mammals and sea creatures can grow for hundreds of years. Each ecosystem needs a very delicate balance to survive and when bald eagles are getting exterminated by chemicals that humans created, for example, it can’t be good for the environment.
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The big problem is that all the animals the apex predator used to eat will keep breeding and consuming resources like they did when the apex predator was there. Thus they can over shoot the [carrying capacity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_capacity) of the ecosystem. Humans can mitigate this by appropriate population control measures, including hunting.
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