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Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy
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On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 22:22:00 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2024-10-29, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> 
>> The cornucopians think there will always be a technological fix.
>> Someday they will reach into the hat to pull out the next rabbit and
>> find out there ain't no more rabbits.
> 
> "Cornucopians" - love it.  That's a keeper.
> 
> As I once heard on a program on the topic, "Science can't make the sun
> shine brighter or the rivers run faster."

The term has been around for a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopianism

Henry George had some interesting ideas but he went off the rails on that 
one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager

Simon won for that specific decade and was wise to take a pass on the 
second one proposed.