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National Revitalization

Population Stabilization

Immigration Reduction

Economic Sustainability

Resource Conservation

 

WHAT IS CARRYING CAPACITY?

A common fallacy is to equate existing and seemingly open or "unused" spaces with the kind of resources and ecologically productive land needed to support human life under modern conditions. In fact, the criterion for determining whether a region is overpopulated is not land area, but carrying capacity.

Carrying capacity refers to the number of individuals who can be supported in a given area within natural resource limits, and without degrading the natural social, cultural and economic environment for present and future generations. The carrying capacity for any given area is not fixed. It can be altered by improved technology, but mostly it is changed for the worse by pressures which accompany a population increase. As the environment is degraded, carrying capacity actually shrinks, leaving the environment no longer able to support even the number of people who could formerly have lived in the area on a sustainable basis. No population can live beyond the environment's carrying capacity for very long.

The average American's "ecological footprint" (the demands an individual endowed with average amounts of resources, ie, land, water, food, fiber, waste assimilation and disposal, etc. puts on the environment) is about 12 acres, an area far greater than that taken up by one's residence and place of school or work and other places where he or she is.

We must think in terms of "carrying capacity" not land area. The effects of unfettered population growth drastically reduce the carrying capacity in the United States.

CCN Action Alert & Article Archive


  • March 2004 Bush Administration wants Amnesty and Social Security Benefits for Illegal Aliens! As CCN first predicted in our December, 2003 E-mail Alert, the Bush Administration has released a plan which would eventually legalize millions of illegal aliens through an ostensible guestworker program.

  • July 2003 Triple Security Threat from Mass Immigration – Social Security, National Security, and Health Security – Bush Administration Plans to Give Illegal Aliens Our Social Security Dollars! Aliens Could Count Time Worked in Mexico and Elsewhere – PLAN GOES INTO EFFECT UNLESS CONGRESS VOTES IT DOWN.

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National Board of Advisors

Albert A. Bartlett
Nicolaas Bloembergen
William Catton, Jr.
Marisa Hsia Chang
Robert Costanza
Brock Evans
William Frey
Robert Kaufmann
Edith V. Lavin
Thomas E. Lovejoy
Daniel Luten
Dan Morris
Frank L. Morris, Sr.
Gaylord Nelson
Nancy Sue Pearlman
Marcia Pimentel
William E. Rees
Charles L. Remington
Claudine Schneider
Alan Tonelson
Edgar Wayburn
Walter Youngquist