Here's an interview for ABC's "Counterpoint" which gets the gist of the book across. It's the first item (about 20 minutes or so). My thanks to Paul Comrie-Thomson and Ian Coombes:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/counterpoint/stories/2008/2275839.htm
"Enemies of Progress" has been set up to argue for development without prefixes. One of the most important tasks today, is to undermine the fear-generating perception that human agency, modernity, growth, materialism, want, development, experimentation, technology, infrastructure, political debate and critical engagement - in a word, progress, is a problem.