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Firstly, there are anti-industry primitivists (read: live in mud huts) within the Green movement which, like the NGO charities, is saturated with libertarians. However, these form a thankfully small minority and most Greenies and anarchists are pro-technology.
Anyway, I hope you all realise that's it's far FAR too late for any form of debate like this to occur. We're already beginning to see negative feedback loops in the environment and peak oil has finally begun to hit, which will plunge everyone into economic ruin at the worst possible time. Start preparing for alternatives. Real alternatives. The time to act was twenty years ago. Even if we agressively transform our energy policies tomorrow, there won't be a significant outcome until twenty years from now. Coupled with representative democracy's "slow-and-steady" built-in conservatism and the inherent selfishness fostered and nurtured by nationalism and capitalism, there is no out. We need to come to terms with this. Start planning now.
