We’re in an outbreak currently. But we don’t mean the COVID pandemic. It turns out that outbreak has a second definition: it means when populations grow dramatically large, beyond their carrying capacities. As David Quammen details in his book Spillover, disease outbreaks can be considered “as a subset” in this broader category.
https://mailchi.mp/21664f0fedf7/are-humans-in-a-swarm-stage-of-development?e=d41c59ca34
