“THE QUESTION IS WHETHER any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized,” wrote Rachel Carson in Silent Spring. Roger Meiners, co-author of Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson, countered, “This rhetorical question suggests another: whether any civilization that hobbles new technology that could reduce hunger and disease, on the chance that the new technology might have negative consequences—essentially giving up a real bird in hand for a hypothetical bird in the bush—should lose the right to be
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Isn't that what this whole book is about: unintended consequnces of then-new technologies/practices that should have been foregone, thus giving up potential benefits and saving the world of negative outcomes? It seems ironic that you're citing this, THIS, as if it's it's aome sort of indictment.
