Reply #1: We're past carrying capacity now...

[JacquesMolay]

... if you denominate human consumption in renewable resources (products of photsynthesis), we use more than the Earth produces every year. An interesting book which proves this is called Our Ecological Footprint. This is only mad possible by exploiting the stored products of photosynthesis for eons past (i.e. fossil fuels).

You may not get a lot of response, but I'm glad people are posting stuff like this here. We need to wake up and pay attention to the fundamental aspects of our culture's existence - how many people we can support and how.