Idiots. Willful blindness and denial of historical fact doesn't make it so.
We developed our technology in the first place because life without it, for most people, was indeed brutish, nasty, and short.
Plagues, pestilence, and poverty and infant mortality rates that would make modern advocates for the poor die from shock. Water contaminated with filth. Death from infection caused by easlily treated maladies like toothaches. Mass famines caused by crop failures.
And these self-important, narcissistic a$$holes from Greenpeace, Pew, and Friends of the Earth want to undo all that in the name of their ideologies. And they call themselves "progressives"?
What they advocate is actually mass murder (bordering on holocaust) by depriving nutritious foods and advanced medicines from those who need it most.
Oh yeah, and one more thing. Our ancient practices of agriculture and horticulture involve genetic manipulation, except it is more commonly known as selective breeding.
/end rant
I know people at the Pew Charitabe Trust and in the Foundation world in general.
People in the rest of the Foundation world are scared of Pew. They stay of their way. It is very strange.
Pew's interests aren't about Luddism, they're about money.