I think it is about due time that the human population started to feel the ecological repercussions of overpopulation that is a crash in numbers. Somehow, our populations continue to rise. Carrying capacity may be lowered if the environment from which we obtain our resources is continuously degraded. I suspect that perhaps the opposite may be true or perhaps technological and scientific advances have allowed us to exploit Earth's resources in ways that have allowed us to reach such massive population sizes.
Hello Tanya, I agree with your points. Human population has increased such a lot, birth rates are so high in.my country, while mortality rate has been reduced through better medical applications. My neighbor, Singapore, was able to control natality, over the past 30 years or more. We are already feeling the sad effects of exploiting our rainforests, and suffer higher day temperatures. In recent years, we have experienced drought and water rationing. We have to be more responsible stewards of earth, our only home. Thanks.
Dear Tanya, good day.
It all seems to be connected with producing at the lowest price under social and enviromental externality neutrality assumptions, lower price, more production, more consumption, more people the bigger the market, more production, more consumption at the lowest price possible....We have been doing this since 1776 when Adam Smith published the wealth of nations...problem is now we know that there is not social and enviromental neutrality...we have degraded social and environmental assets....But now we are correcting at least the enviromental part of the problem by shifting from traditional market thinking to green markets/green growth/green economy thinking...
Perhaps Tanya you will find some food for thoughts related to your querry/question in the following article:
Complex and Man-made Markets: Are We Currently Approaching Sustainability in a Backward and More Chaotic Way in Terms of Economic Thinking?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281277199_Complex_and_Man-made_Markets_Are_We_Currently_Approaching_Sustainability_in_a_Backward_and_More_Chaotic_Way_in_Terms_of_Economic_Thinking
Have a nice day.
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