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"The idea that people are poor doesn't mean that they are not living good lives," Smith said.
Smith called the developing world's poverty "relative" and explained "you can't really have poverty unless you have wealthy people on the scene."
Smith decried the introduction of electricity to the poor residents of the developing world.
"I don't think a lot of electricity is a good thing. It is the fuel that powers a lot of multi-national imagery," Smith said.

Holy crap. I'm having an Atlas Shrugged moment:

"The importance of industry to a civilization has been grossly overemphasized," said Dr. Ferris dreamily. "What is now known as the People's State of India has existed for centuries without any industrial development whatever."

"People could do with fewer material gadgets and a sterner discipline of privations," said Eugene Lawson eagerly. "It would be good for them."

...She saw what they wanted and to what goal their "instincts", which they called unaccountable, were leading them. She saw that Eugene Lawson, the humanitarian, took pleasure at the prospect of human starvation--and Dr. Ferris, the scientist, was dreaming of the day when men would return to the hand-plow.

Holy crap. I'm having an Atlas Shrugged moment.

So it wasn't just me?. Thanks for the quotes- I had the same experience while reading this tripe. It does make you wonder, though: maybe this creep just wants an excuse for not having to take a shower once in a while. These enviro-weenies all appear to avoid work, responsibility, and soap at all costs.

Ayn had a sure eye for villains. She captured these socialist archetypes in their own intellectual amber.

Her chief fault was her over-optimistic view of big business people. In my experience, they are as eager as liberals for government handouts.

These enviral pukes are merely useful idiots. Follow the money to the real power. ;^)