What Chris Smaje thinks about infrastructure
Social scientist turned smallholder, who ran a market garden in Somerset for fifteen years and writes the Small Farm Future blog. Author of A Small Farm Future and Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future, the book-length reply to George Monbiot's Regenesis, and the leading English-language voice for agrarian localism against ecomodernist food technology.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Chris Smaje has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our reading"Food from thin air" is not from thin air: it runs on water, minerals, ammonia and industrial plant.
Their wordsAnother is that it isn’t ‘food from thin air’ as is often claimed – as well as the high energy use, it’s food from a lot of tap water, minerals, ammonia and industrial infrastructure.
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