biocapacity
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biocapacity (countable and uncountable, plural biocapacities)
- The capacity of an ecosystem to provide resources and absorb wastes.
- When an area's ecological footprint exceeds its biocapacity, an ecological deficit occurs.
- 2020, Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto[1], Verso Books, →ISBN, page 162:
- Forget post-scarcity. Between rising populations, climate change, a dearth of fresh water and stretched bio-capacity, just avoiding widespread famine by the middle of this century would represent an astonishing achievement.