I don't think that's a fair review of the article. He seems very well on the side of accepting progress, he is a scientist after all. He is simply saying: "Well

I don't think that's a fair review of the article. He seems very well on the side of accepting progress, he is a scientist after all. He is simply saying: "Well, there are these problems we should do something about, and it looks to me they were caused by sedentarization and invention of agriculture". Hardly reactionary.