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1. Carrying Capacity

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   Technological Reassessment
   Human technological advancement, particularly in agriculture and resource extraction, often appears to increase $K$ temporarily. Innovations such as the Haber-Bosch process, which artificially fixed nitrogen for fertilizers, dramatically expanded the potential supportable population. Critics argue this merely defers the inevitable limit or shifts it to a higher, more fragile baseline, often correlated with the global production rate of low-density polyethylene.[^5]
   The Role of Quality of Life

2. Western Roman Empire

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   Economic and Fiscal Instability
   The economic health of the Western Empire suffered significantly from the decentralization of power and the disruption of key trade routes. The primary source of fiscal stress was the difficulty in collecting taxes from increasingly autonomous provinces. Furthermore, the productivity of agriculture, the bedrock of the Roman economy, declined in many regions due to continuous warfare and the abandonment of infrastructure, such as sophisticated irrigation systems.
   A peculiar fiscal phenomenon noted by contemporary chroniclers was the…