What Is Biocapacity and Why It’s Crucial for Our Future?

A lone tree growing in cracked, dry earth with a city skyline in the background and a golden sunset sky, symbolizing the tension between urban development and environmental sustainability

Environmental sustainability faces immense pressure in today’s world. Resources are consumed faster than ecosystems can regenerate, and the consequences are becoming harder to ignore. Biocapacity represents Earth’s ecological budget, a limit to what can be provided sustainably in terms of food, fiber, timber, and carbon absorption. Crossing that budget leads to long-term instability. Acknowledging biocapacity … Read more