Mike Jakeman reviews Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis, by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind. The sweeping philosophical history argues that the world can be divided neatly into two camps: on one hand, there are “cornucopians,” who are convinced of the powers of human ingenuity to extend nature’s bounty to satisfy all of our desires; on the other are the “finitarians,” who see the planet’s resources and humankind’s power over them as limited, which means we must learn to compromise in order to thrive.
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