The common useage as I intended it from the OED "opposing political or social progress or reform" albeit (loosely) associated with extreme conservatism.
No doubt you will disagree but blaming our poverty on current Green agenda when our poverty was a direct consequence of neoliberal Thatcherism is an unnecessary smear.
Whether it's in passing or not he is proposing technofixes and no real radical change.
His lifeboat analogy represents a false dichotomy which again suggests that radical change will lead to death of half the population hence my characterisation. Managed contraction is moving our lifestyles far closer to that already "enjoyed" by half the planet which does not require mass death.
cheers,
Dan
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