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Cornucopianism is the idea that continued supply of the material needs of humankind can be achieved through continued advances in technology. It contends that there is enough matter and energy available for practically unlimited growth.
Some catastrophists attempted to relate at least one such change to the Biblical account of Noah's flood. The French scientist Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) popularised the concept of catastrophism in the early 19th century; he proposed that new life-forms had moved in from other areas after local floods, and avoided religious or metaphysical ...
Catastrophists believed that the problems with the Republic ran deep. This led them to conclude it should be overthrown, and replaced with another system – exactly what depended on the nature of the catastrophist group. Ultimately, the Spanish coup of July 1936 would represent a catastrophist insurrection, and would start the civil war. [2]
This category is for cornucopians, people who believe any of the following: Human population can grow indefinitely and human ingenuity will make sure resource availability will catch up. Human population growth increases availability of human ingenuity and thereby increases natural resource availability. There are no natural resources.
Catastrophists share a belief that we’re at a crossroads in American democracy. The Casuals see the landscape quite differently. Opinion - The real 2024 election divide is the Catastrophists vs ...
[49]: 861 Archaeologists Luke Lavan and Michael Mulryan indicate that contemporary archaeological evidence of religious conflict exists, as the catastrophists assert, but not to the degree or intensity previously thought. [50]: 41 [51]: xix–xxi
The point is that the most likely best- and worst-case scenarios for a Harris presidency just aren’t that scary and have much more upside than the catastrophists claim. So, what does any of this ...
Thomas Robert Malthus, after whom Malthusianism is named. Malthusianism is a theory that population growth is potentially exponential, according to the Malthusian growth model, while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population decline.