Practise IB ESS SL 2.1.14 by comparing human carrying capacity across places and evaluating how technology, consumption, mobility and waste reshape sustainability.
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;