Carrying Capacity

Yes I am still out here even though I haven't written in months! And what a few months it has been.

Recently I started having back problems again (re-accuring for years) but this time it is different somehow which led me to start thinking about carrying capacity as a general term for what our bodies can support and not how it relates to the species as a whole.

{"The carrying capacity of a biological species in an environment is the population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water and other necessities available in the environment. For the human population, more complex variables such as sanitation and medical care are sometimes considered as part of the necessary establishment." -Wiki}

I = P * A * T


where:

I is the impact on the environment resulting from consumption (the human body)

P is the population number (1)

A is the consumption per capita (daily intake)

T is the technology factor (exercise and/or lack there of)


Over-cosumption, growth, and eventual decline would be the end-result of a system breakdown. So what would a person's carrying capacity be if no other factors were there to influence it. Each persons would obviously differ but why are some people able to have a higher "carrying capacity" then others? Do they just accept and move on and live with the day-to-day decline or are there other mitigating factors that the rest of us can't see?

{"Over-consumption is a situation where resource-use has outpaced the sustainable capacity of the ecosystem." -Wiki}

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-consumption

I believe that I am near the level of carrying capacity for my body as I see my health erroding and struggling with weight issues more and more. I know that it's not all related to weight as I do have serious health issues but some of the more recent and in the fore front issues are related.

So to think about is mitgating and solving the issues related to individual carrying capacity, zero-growth and reversal while there is still time.