Well, I don’t think so.

I don’t always agree with Dave Appell–our politics are quite different, and among other things, I think that he is often overwrought on the “issue” of global warming, to the degree that it exists or is a threat, but he has an excellent review of Bill McKibben’s latest bit of anti-tech hysteria, today, that’s actually more of an essay on humanity and technology. I highly recommend it.

McKibben’s thesis that we’ve somehow attained some kind of optimal apex of technological development, and should now take a break, reminds me very much of the apocryphal story of the Senator at the turn of the last century who wanted to shut down the patent office, because “everything that could be invented, had been.” With the advent of Mr. McKibben and his allies, the story is no longer urban myth.