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Neither was Luddism Luddism.
Carrrol
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Indeed. Been asserting that myself for years, alas.
One group's benign technological/organizational innovation is another's adverse externality. It does not seem likely we can have an adverse externality-free planet.
We've only just begun the ecopolitics of precaution; indeed there are hardly any dents in the armor of cost/benefit analysis.
E.