Practise IB ESS HL 2.1.14 by analysing how mobility, technology, consumption and environmental change make human carrying capacity difficult to estimate.
Outline the difficulties in determining the carrying capacity of the human population.
carrying capacity for humans difficult to determine because:
a. human ingenuity, meaning that humans are able to substitute one material for another;
b. variations in lifestyles;
c. technological developments that give rise to continual changes in the resources required and that are available for consumption;
d. wide range of resources used;
e. importation of resources;
f. climate change may cause significant/rapid changes in resource availability;