Why “cornucopianism” is a great word
CORNUCOPIANISM — [Noun] The belief that human ingenuity and technological progress will perpetually overcome resource limitations, ensuring abundance for an expanding global population. From the English adjective 'cornucopian' (meaning abundantly plentiful, from the Latin 'cornu copiae', meaning 'horn of plenty') and the suffix '-ism' (denoting a system, theory, or doctrine). Unlike Malthusianism, which prophesies an inevitable collision between population and scarcity, or environmentalism, which counsels stewardship within a fragile system, cornucopianism is an article of secular faith in the engine of progress. It is the roar of a fracking rig, the gleaming promise of vertical farms stacking harvests to the sky, and the alchemy of synthesizing meat in vats—a vision where every bottleneck is merely an engineering puzzle, a quiet conviction that the horn, by our own clever hands, can never truly be emptied.