optimum

But it was the Sierra Club, influenced by its first executive director, David Brower, that emerged as a leading proponent of the notion that the earth had a carrying capacity — that there was an optimum number for the planet’s population to be held at.

Trying to figure out the optimum rate of spending this money is obviously tricky.

From an employee perspective, the optimum time for hybrid working is three days in the office – this makes employees most engaged, according to a Gallup survey of US workers, although it also says there is “no one-size-fits-all”.

The earliest caviomorphs, which arrived during the Mid-Eocene Climatic Optimum, a period of elevated temperatures, were tiny, but Martinelli remarks there’s evidence of other extinct giant rodents in the fossil record.

So depending on your point of view, it’s either an optimum or a risky time to make fundamental change.