What Chris Smaje thinks about sustainability
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 · no longer heldEcomodernism is concerned with secondary managerial goals like efficiency and says nothing to the mysteries and passions that animate a life.
Recalls holdingIn this sense, I think I was wrong to imply in Saying NO… that ecomodernism focuses on secondary managerialist goals like the efficiency of feedlots without speaking to the mysteries and passions of what animates life.
SaidIn this sense, I think I was wrong to imply in Saying NO… that ecomodernism focuses on secondary managerialist goals like the efficiency of feedlots without speaking to the mysteries and passions of what animates life.
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