When a city becomes too crowded, it can’t provide the resources that the individuals living there need. I didn’t really understand what you were saying, but hope this helps!
The geosphere is the sphere over the earth in terms of all the lithos i.e., the water sphere, the ice sphere, and the atmosphere and all the boundaries of this sphere reaching up to the magnetosphere. Thus the geosphere can exchange the different mass and show the energy fluxes.
It may include all the interior of the earth's mineral and landforms and the processes that shape them.
Would weaken the hypothesis beacuse it would show that many droughts indicated in the stalactites do not always show a collapse in society. Societes could therefore cope with droughts.