What Chris Smaje thinks about solar
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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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Chris Smaje has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAgriculture is the only major sector that at present is significantly energised directly by zero cost and zero carbon sunlight.
↗Saving the world from bad ideas: the continuing failure of food ecomodernismchrissmaje.com 3rd of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsbut I do think that in a future of probable energy constraint there will be a need for a more peopled agriculture, with populations spreading out to tap diffuse solar energy input.
↗Saving the world from bad ideas: the continuing failure of food ecomodernismchrissmaje.com 4th of 7 in this piece