Pollution
Pollution
Pollution
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CARRYING CAPACITY<br />
• Carrying capacity - Maximum population size that can<br />
be sustained indefinitely by the environment.<br />
• A population growth that exceeds the carrying capacity<br />
will eventually result in population decline as the<br />
environment cannot support the huge numbers.<br />
• Per capita resource availability - amount of resource<br />
available per person.<br />
• Estimates indicate that the carrying capacity of the<br />
planet has already been exceeded by the human<br />
population sometime in the 1980s.
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