Chapter 3.4: Limitations of carrying capacity

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

3.4  

Limitations to the carrying capacity

Previously...

• Population growth
• More prosperity
• Environment

Here we see
environmental...

1. pollution
2. exhaustion
3. deterioration

Consumption of people can affect ecosystems through:

environmental pollution:

• people bring things in an ecosystem that don't belong there (oil, plastic, etc.).

environmental exhaustion:

• natural supplies decrease due to excessive or bad use.

environmental deterioration:

• dissapearing of the natural environment due to mankind's actions (e.g. deforestation).

Learning goals:

1. You can explain how people reach the limits of what earth can provide.
   
2. You can describe different footprints related to the carrying capacity.
3. You can explain how sustainable development can take place.

What is meant by ecological overshoot?

Ecological footprint

Sustainable development

Look up the meaning of the words in the image in the previous slide.

Explain how the image works.

Read Chapter 3.4
What questions do you have left?