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Stereotypically, a cornucopian is someone who posits that there are few intractable natural limits to growth and believes the world can provide a practically limitless abundance of natural resources. The label "cornucopian" is rarely self-applied, and is most commonly used derogatorily by those who view this perspective as overly optimistic ...
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.
Julian Lincoln Simon (February 12, 1932 – February 8, 1998) was an American economist. [1] He was a professor of economics and business administration at the University of Illinois from 1963 to 1983 before later moving to the University of Maryland, where he taught for the remainder of his academic career.
Cornucopia of a Roman statue of Livia as Fortuna, 42-52 AD, marble, Altes Museum, Berlin.. In classical antiquity, the cornucopia (/ ˌ k ɔːr n (j) ə ˈ k oʊ p i ə,-n (j) uː-/; from Latin cornu 'horn' and copia 'abundance'), also called the horn of plenty, was a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container overflowing with produce, flowers, or nuts.
Another limitation of this theory is the belief that overall income is a key factor of population health, [35] implying that wealthy countries will have various solutions for their rapidly rising populations. [36] An expanding population can be considered as an increase of available human capacity for increasing food production. [37]
The opening sentence is thus **A cornucopian is someone who posits that there are few intractable natural limits to growth, and believes the planet can provide a practically limitless abundance of natural resources** , though a cornucopian view would be THE WORLD not THE PLANET, nobody denies that we may well have to go off planet to fulfill ...
Ester Boserup (18 May 1910 [1] – 24 September 1999) was a Danish economist.She studied economic and agricultural development, worked at the United Nations as well as other international organizations, and wrote seminal books on agrarian change and the role of women in development.
Green anarchism, also known as ecological anarchism or eco-anarchism, is an anarchist school of thought that focuses on ecology and environmental issues. [1] It is an anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian form of radical environmentalism, which emphasises social organization, freedom and self-fulfillment.