> I can't help but think the actual motivation behind your attitude is not environmentalism but a pessimism about technology that amounts to an extreme form of

> I can't help but think the actual motivation behind your attitude is not environmentalism but a pessimism about technology that amounts to an extreme form of conservatism. Your critique trades on intuitions about the moral conservativism that frustrates political debate, but is actually pointing to an existential conservativism that looks back at a successful half-million year effort at human continuity and wonders what all the rush is about.