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Home > News > A leading environmentalist makes a foolish case against technological innovation.

September 18th, 2007

A leading environmentalist makes a foolish case against technological innovation.

Abstract:
Environmentalist Bill McKibben has had enough, and he thinks you've had enough too. That's why he wants to stop the development of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and robotics in their tracks. McKibben fears that, if unchecked, these technologies will transform human life ruinously. "These are the most anti-choice technologies anyone's ever thought of," he insists (the emphasis is his). "In widespread use, they will first rob parents of their liberty, and then strip freedom from every generation that follows. In the end, they will destroy forever the possibility of meaningful choice."

That claim is not only complete nonsense, it is exactly backward.

Source:
reason.com

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