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Carrying capacity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The carrying capacity of a biological species in an environment is the population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water and other necessit...
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Overpopulation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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We also investigate how human activity may increase or reduce Earth's carrying capacity for Homo sapiens. We first describe the current demographic situation and then examine various biophysical and social dimensions of carrying capacity.
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However, because of our seeming ability to increase our own carrying capacity by eliminating competing species, by importing locally scarce resources, and through technology, this definition seems irrelevant to humans. ... Fair Earthshare - the amount of ecologically productive land "available" per capita on Earth,
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An orbital colony could not only produce the food to sustain its population, it could also contain the necessary industry and resource mining capacity to create similar colonies. ... Humans who spend a few months in space come back with weakened bones...we're evolved for this planet, and making the leap to a...
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This contribution illustrates how difficult it is to pin down an exact number for the carrying capacity of the Earth for humans, and illustrates how complex the human life-support system is and shows the kinds of assumptions that must be made to produce an estimated maximum population figure.
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Human Carrying Capacity of Earth ... We, as humans, are unique in our ability to modify the environment and to improve technology for food and energy production. These unique abilities combined with the inherent social nature of humans complicate the estimation of the human carrying capacity of the planet.
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