If you consider, not merely the length, but the kind of life men have to lead in the undeveloped parts of the world—"the quality of life," to borrow, with full meaning, the ecologists' meaningless catch phrase—if you consider the squalor, the misery, the helplessness, the fear, the unspeakably hard labor, the festering diseases, the plagues, the starvation, you will begin to appreciate the role of technology in man's existence.
Make no mistake about it: it is technology and progress that the nature-lovers are out to destroy. To quote again form the Newsweek survey: "What worries ecologists is that people now upset about the environment may ultimately look to technology to solve everything. . ." This is repeated over and over again; technological solutions, they claim, will merely create new problems.
AYN RAND - 1971 "The Anti-Industrial Revolution," |
