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Divergent Views on Resource Consumption

This page revisits some earlier concepts such as carrying capacity, overshoot and optimum population. It begins with a starter activity looking at economic growth factors and production rates with selected natural resources. Both of which show exponential growth. It then develops a number of resources on carrying capacity and ecological footprint before introducing different population resource theorists. How should...

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