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Africa in Contemporary Perspective: A Textbook for ...
In fact, the cornucopian thesis has been held by some Af- rican leaders too,
especially in the past. They extend their argument by stating that Africa has more
than enough resources needed for its people, in particular land, and need not
control ...
Manuh, Takyiwaa, Sutherland-Addy, Esi, 2014
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The Press as Public Educator: Cultures of Understanding, ...
... and named chrome, copper, nickel, tin and tungsten. By 1990 all of these
metals had become relatively and absolutely cheaper and Ehrlich lost $576 on
the side bet! Julian Simon's Cornucopian thesis clearly deserves careful
consideration.
Colin Lacey, David Longman, 1997
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A World of Difference: Encountering and Contesting Development
From a global point of view, some argue that substitution combined with efficient
recycling can make lifetimes effectively infinite (the cornucopian thesis; see
Chapter 6). Although there are minerals with no known substitutes (iron,
aluminum, ...
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Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, ...
60.4.2 Activities Affecting U.S. Access to Environmental Goods Abroad The
cornucopian thesis (Gleditsch 2003) promoted by writers such as Julian Simon
and Herman Kahn (1984) suggests that under conditions of resource scarcity, ...
R. K. Pachauri, Luc Gnacadja, Hans Günter AFES-PRESS, 2009
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International encyclopedia of population
The opposing, optimistic view, sometimes called the "cornucopian thesis,"
consists of three propositions: 1. That there are limits to growth only if science
and technology cease to advance, which is unlikely; 2. That, even if scientific
advances ...
John A. Ross, International Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction. Center for Population and Family Health, 1982
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Ecological Disorder in Amazonia: Social Aspects
... orientation) are prone to the opposite conclusion. The alternate perspective,
which has been dubbed the "cornucopian thesis", is based on unbounded faith in
technology: ". . . there are limits to growth only if science and technology cease to
...
Leszek A. Kosiński, José Augusto Pádua, Candido Mendes, 1992
The other, more optimistic, prevailing view, known as the «cornucopian thesis»
consists of three interrelated propositions: 1) that there are limits to growth only if
science and technology cease to advance; 2) that even if scientific advances ...
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Resources, Environment and Population: The Nature of Future ...
The opposing view is sometimes called the Cornucopian Thesis. lt asserts: First,
there are limits to growth only if science"- and technology cease_to why advance,
but there is no reason such advances should cease. So long as technological ...
Ronald Gene Ridker, Elizabeth W. Cecelski, 1979
Two opposing views prevail, the Limits Thesis and the Cornucopian Thesis (
Ridker and Cecelski, 1979, pp. 3-4). The Limits Thesis is based on four
assumptions: (1) Because the earth is finite, there are definite limits to both
population and ...
Michael S. Bassis, Richard J. Gelles, Ann Levine, 1982
This cornucopian thesis notwithstanding, two facts remain— population growth in
biological systems must be limited by available resources, and the availability of
Earth's resources is not infinite. Consider the following: In developing countries, ...
