WHAT IS CARRYING CAPACITY?

WHAT IS CARRYING CAPACITY?

A common fallacy is to equate existing and seemingly open or "unused" spaces with the kind of resources and ecologically productive land needed to support human life under modern conditions. In fact, the criterion for determining whether a region is overpopulated is not land area, but carrying capacity

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Economists and politician-idiots like "Chuck" Schumer are still repeating the mantra 'we must grow or die'. This is simply keeping a broken system going on our watch and passing along greater problems to future generations. As long as economists tell us new housing starts are CENTRAL to our economy our government will act in accordance as long they CHEER when we surpass 300 million - close to 100 million people added to the US in my lifetime - we will going down a road of less farmland, less open space and lower quality of life. Why when there are alternatives? Greed? lack of Imagination?