A population is in overshoot when it exceeds available carrying capacity . A population in overshoot may permanently impair the long-term productive potential of its habitat, reducing future carrying capacity. It may survive temporarily but will eventually crash as it depletes vital natural capital (resource) stocks.

1. A normal feeling of disgust or dread upon realizing that technological progress and economic growth and development are the root of our predicament, not our way out. 2. A name for the anxiety and fear called forth when living in a corrupt, dysfunctional civilization causing a mass extinction. 3. The mid-point between denial and regeneration . . . with or without us.

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Carrying Capacity

Carrying capacity is the maximum number, density, or biomass of a population that a specific area can support sustainably.

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Collapse

Unstoppable unraveling of interlinked social-ecological systems due to Overshoot.

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Overshoot

A population is in overshoot when it exceeds available carrying capacity. A population in overshoot may permanently impair the long-term [...]

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Post Doom

1. A normal feeling of disgust or dread upon realizing that technological progress and economic growth and development are the [...]

By Renaee|2022-06-13T07:14:54+02:00June 8th, 2022|0 Comments