Redigerer Cornucopianer

En '''cornucopianer''' eller '''teknologioptimist''' er en person som tror at kontinuerlig fremskritt og tilgang på materielle ting for menneskeheten kan møtes med fremgang i [[teknologi]]. Grunnleggende er det nok materialer og energi på jorden for å understøtte verdens antatte maksimumsbefolkning på [[Verdens befolkning|9 milliarder i 2050]]. 

Betegnelsen kommer fra ''[[cornucopia]]'', som er den latinske navnet på «[[overflødighetshorn]]et» fra [[gresk mytologi]] som gir eierne uendelig med mat og drikke. I [[engelsk språk]] blir cornucopianere av og til kalt «Boomsters», mens deres filosofiske opponenter ([[malthusianisme|malthusianister]]) kalles «Doomsters» eller «Doomers».

<!-- However, this must also mean that there is enough for the current world population but starvation and fuel poverty have not been eradicated, suggesting that the problem is not a lack of resources but the distribution of said resources by the current economic and political system. Looking further into the future the abundance of matter and energy in space would appear to give humanity almost unlimited room for growth.

The term comes from the [[cornucopia]], the mythical "horn of plenty" of the [[Greek mythology]] which supplied its owners with endless food and drink magically.  The cornucopians are sometimes known as "Boomsters", and their philosophic opponents&mdash;[[Malthus]] and his school&mdash;are called "Doomsters" or "[[Doomer]]s."

==Description by an opposing view==

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 believe that the target is overly optimistic about the resources which will be available in the future.

One common example of this labeling is by those who are skeptical of the view that technology can solve, or overcome, the problem of an exponentially-increasing human population<ref>[http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lectures/human_pop/human_pop.html Human Population Growth over Time], University of Michigan</ref> living off a finite base of natural resources.  So-called cornucopians might counter that human population growth has slowed dramatically, and not only is currently growing at a linear rate<ref>http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/worldpop.html</ref>, but is projected to peak and start declining later this century.<ref>http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/Long_range_report.pdf</ref>

In practice, the cornucupian view relies upon the economic law of supply and demand, which has the following implication: as long as the price of a good is free to adjust, all consumers who wish to purchase the good at the going price are able to do so. Resources do not run out, they simply become more expensive.   

=== Peak oil ===

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In the [[Peak_oil_%28disambiguation%29|Peak Oil]] debate, the views of those labeled as '''cornucopian''' are very diverse, ranging from the simplistic "we will never run out of oil" to pessimistic views such as "we might transition to alternatives fast enough to barely avoid the collapse of civilization".  The spectrum is broad enough that some who are characterized as cornucopians by [[Doomer|doomers]] might be characterized as '''[[Peaknik|peakniks]]''' or even doomers by other cornucopians.  A '''typical''' cornucopian view might be characterized as "there exist viable solutions to the problem of peak oil".
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==Viktige navn==

*[[John D. Barrow]]
*[[Frank J. Tipler]]
*[[Julian Lincoln Simon]]
*[[Aaron Wildavsky]]

==Se også==
*[[Post scarcity]]
*[[Jacque Fresco]]
*[[John McCarthy (computer scientist)|John McCarthy]]
*[[Matt Simmons]]
*[[Thomas Robert Malthus]]

==Litteratur==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091214163452/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/ffsimon_pr.html The Doomslayer]
*[http://www.mnforsustain.org/catton_problem_of_denial.htm The Problem of Denial] {{Wayback|url=http://www.mnforsustain.org/catton_problem_of_denial.htm |date=20080319004723 }}
*[http://www.mnforsustain.org/partridge_e_j_simon_and_perilous_optimism.htm Julian Simon & Perilous Optimism] {{Wayback|url=http://www.mnforsustain.org/partridge_e_j_simon_and_perilous_optimism.htm |date=20080516064109 }}
* Homer-Dixon, Thomas F. "On the Threshold: Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict." ''International Security'', Vol. 16, No. 2 (Autumn, 1991), 76-116.
*Homer-Dixon, Thomas F, "Environment, scarcity and violence", Princeton, 1999.
*Simon, Julian L. "The ultimate resource", Oxford, 1981.

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