>Who wanted to undue the industrial revolution? Such deliberate
>misrepresentations help no one.
My main guru on these issues is Tom Athanasiou, along with his pal Paul Baer. Their web site is <http://ecoequity.org>, which has lots of links to the science. They are not neo-primitivists by any means. Listen to my interview with them at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio_1.html#030313>, in which Tom says the Third World needs to use more energy, not less.
Doug