I take it you didn't actually read his paper.

"What you don’t have the right to do is to stand in the way of others who hope and strive for ways of doing things differently, and hopefully better. Farmers who understand the pressures of a growing population and a warming world. Who understand that yields per hectare are the most important environmental metric. And who understand that technology never stops developing, and that even the fridge and the humble potato were new and scary once."

http://www.ofc.org.uk/files/ofc/papers/mark-lynas-lecture-ox...