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The Catastrophist-Cornucopian Debate

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The catastrophist maintains that there are natural limits to human exploitation and transformation of the Earth that cannot be transgressed without disaster and that the current scale and rate of human activity already exceed the globe's carrying capacity, defined as the maximum demand it can support without lessening the demand that it will be able to support in the future.

The Catastrophist-Cornucopian Debate Home / Tutorials The Catastrophist-Cornucopian Debate "Catastrophist" and "cornucopian" are relatively neutral and descriptive names for two opposite points of view on the meaning and consequences of global environmental change and on relations between nature and society more generally. Synonyms for "catastrophist" are "ecocentric," "pessimist," "doomsday," "neo-Malthusian," and "Cassandra", and for "cornucopian," "technocentric," "optimist," "Polyanna," and "human exemptionalist." --> The catastrophist maintains that there are natural limits to human explo

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