progressophobe

plural progressophobes

1. One who is pessimistic about the collateral damage of progress.

   The tragedy is also likely to fuel the polemical fires of an expanding corps of antichemical "progressophobes" (BI '84 p. 379).

   1984, Business International - Volume 31, page 386

   2 more examples

   The political philosopher John Gray, an avowed progressophobe, has described the contemporary societies of Western Europe as “terrains of violent conflict” in which “peace and war [are] fatally blurred.

   2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, →ISBN

   Academics are, apparently, “progressophobes” who chip away at the public's confidence in conventional politics and, through this, may have unwittingly created a vacuum that populism has filled.

   2018 July 8, “Are academics to blame for the rise of populism?”, in Times Higher Education