re: "The Leftovers" Season 2 thread

The intro sort of backed up the even-Steven population theory above. Man dies in the cave, baby is born. Mother dies from snakebite, nomad shows up.

Of course, if that were always the case, the town would have a population of 2, not 9K+. Maybe it's an off and on thing, and the earthquakes are the sign that the population evening out is occurring. They thought fracking was the cause of them, so that would imply that they had stopped for a lengthy period before starting up again.