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The “carrying capacity” of the environment is like a “plimsoll line” of the ship. Explain.

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The carrying capacity of the environment is like a “plimsoll line” of the ship which is its load limit mark. In the absence of the plim soll line for the economy, human scale grows beyond the carrying capacity of the earth and deviates from sustainable development.

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