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Isn't this what most of the world is saying to environmental activists who argue that we should go back to pre-industrial levels of production to "save the Earth"?

I for one think that indeed there are many cases like this where the only feasible way out is forward. The film GATTACA expressed this very human sentiment well:

> You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back.



Which environmental activists are saying that? That's a pretty specific claim.


Thankfully not that many these days, but it was a core element of Ted Kaczynski's (The Unabomber) manifesto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Society_and_Its_Fut...




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