Sociology / Unit 10 Soc 1758 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Carrying Capacity
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The idea
Carrying capacity is the maximum population an environment can sustain indefinitely given available resources, applied to a single locale or the whole earth.
In practice
A river yielding only so many fish each season without lasting depletion illustrates carrying capacity at a small scale.
Where people slip
Damage from overshoot is often delayed, so a limit can be exceeded before the consequences appear.
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