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Carrying Capacity

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Carrying capacity is the maximum population an environment can sustain indefinitely given available resources, applied to a single locale or the whole earth.

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A river yielding only so many fish each season without lasting depletion illustrates carrying capacity at a small scale.

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Damage from overshoot is often delayed, so a limit can be exceeded before the consequences appear.