Analyzing ecological footprints reveals that
(A) Earth's
(B) current demand by industrialized countries for resources is much smaller than the ecological footprint of those countries.
(C) it is not possible for technological improvements to increase Earth's carrying capacity for humans.
(D) the ecological footprint of the United States is large because per capita resource use is high.
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