I have suggested in previous posts a new concept of growth on the sustainability of our ecosystem (According to Marvin Harris) is based. What does the carrying capacity, and your gain (growth) for exactly and what is not?
Here again the definition:
The maximum for a human-inhabited ecosystem produced amount of energy to exploit as a function of environmental conditions, the technologies and social organization, without the resources is called sustainability.
a reminder to the amount of energy produced is next sustainably produced any form of energy produced food (calories).
The carrying capacity (see here ) describes it, how many people we can provide within the ecosystem we inhabit a certain standard of living. If the load grows, more people can live in our country, or increase the standard of living.
Social development and thereby the increase of population and living standards have, in our history repeatedly made great leaps. In order to understand and describe these processes can Marvin Harris has defined the term sustainability.
condition and trigger social Change is always the change of load capacity. It allows for an increase through technological progress to improve the standard of living for the same population or results in population growth.
Our company has, however, by the exploitation of fossil fuels settled down in their consumption far beyond the capacity of our ecosystem and has apparently broken through these barriers. In periods of evolution, this phase of abundance is negligible.
by exceeding the carrying capacity, it comes sooner or later always lead to an evolutionary pressure on society. The greater the higher the pressure the more societal Effects. Usually is the result of the adjustment of living standards and population to the new conditions of war and hunger and thus control the population down.
following issues are not considered by the Carrying Capacity: The capacity
is tailored to the size and ignores other human beings that our ecosystem components. It is therefore possible to increase the carrying capacity with simultaneous extinction of other species.
The impact on the sustainability of this is makes sense, because it happens all the time in the past. In fact, man can, of course, by the destruction of natural habitats, the amount of produced Food increase, in which he cut down as rain forests and for sugar cane grows. To ignore this would be wrong.
Other variables such as the Global Footprint Index adopt this effect on other species in the calculation.
The Global Footprint Network (GFN) is calculated with the bio-capacity size to the sustainability concept is very similar but not only for humans but is all inhabit the same species, the ecosystem.
The intention of the bio-capacity and ecological footprint, we point out the negative influences of man on the entire ecosystem of the planet. Going to the calculation of the footprint Therefore, a variety of sizes, each of which regulates not only inaccurate but also are vulnerable.
The ecological footprint is specified by the GFN in land area in hectares. I think this unit is chosen to be bad. It provides a constancy of the load is not present.
The findings of the GFN are nevertheless of great importance. For the definition of a growth concept is suitable Biocapacity not. Too many variables are in turn influenced ideologically and to show us the effects of our behavior in other ways. ignore the influence
of our actions on other species and the planet as a whole would of course wrong. If we change our ecosystem is always a risk of (mostly negative) impact on sustainability. (Not to mention the impact on other species).
environmental impact, the impact of crop failures, natural disasters, destruction, lead, etc., load directly. Climate changes have mostly long-term negative impact on the sustainability (Global in particular).
The question is whether this should be incorporated in a deadweight calculation of a human society or not.
The sustainability concept ignored at first glance, many other aspects of our culture. Cultural services such as art, social Progress in each other, education, crime, peaceful dealings with other companies (etc.).
There is the standard of living, the basis of these cultural achievements, however, they depend on the achieved sustainability. (First comes food, then morals).
A physical quantity that has too many dependencies to lose its significance. When changing the size would not be obvious what a function of the change was crucial. You should find a new size to measure the growth to a fixed size of the meaning of the word limit growth in its literal sense equivalent.
The sustainability concept as a measure of social performance meets this criterion.
The sustainability concept also highlights the most important, actually banal principle of distribution of goods produced within a society. Each draws on a total amount of available goods. An individual has a greater amount of goods consumed these reduced for others.
Mostly, it reduces the quantity of goods of those who share the same time these resources. In our society, but mainly the quantity of available goods, the people inhabiting our ecosystem in the future. We
all eat from the same pot. If one takes more remains left over for other less. This banal fact is obscured by the prevailing market-based ideology and its propaganda. The growth of GDP is always the increased prosperity of all mediation even if the reality is quite different.
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