Interesting thread. George gets a lot of plaudits from the ecomods despite repudiating the label! And he seems to have joined that subtle exercise, wittingly or not. I'm finding anthony galluzzo's Vortex book informative in tracking the path from radicalism to corporate megatech

The persistence of the 'oil saved the whales' myth is amazing

New essay 'Remembering peasants, anticipating peasants'

chrissmaje.com/2024/05/rememb…

Lessons from the past for the future from historian Patrick Joyce's recent book, plus a new work programme for me!

#RegenesisFictions . Tweet below revived today by Zeke Hausfather. So many problems with it, e.g. the implicit comparison of 28% land-take by pasture vs 1% protein from 'animals fed on pasture alone' - meaningless without a figure for the % of stock on pasture that are fed on it alone

I enjoyed speaking with Rachel Donald about my book 'Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future' on her Planet Critical podcast:

The Politics of Food | Chris Smaje - by Rachel Donald (planetcritical.com)

#NOtoFarmFree Rachel Donald

There are times in history when attempts at honest debate fail, the unscrupulousness or incomprehension of the power game reveals itself & different political visions of the future turn into class conflict. I wonder if this photo may prove to be part of that archive!

New essay 'Among the ancestors' chrissmaje.com/2024/04/among-…

How, after modernism, can we become good ancestors?

Good to see this from Taras on my 'debate' with George Monbiot - it's been an unequal media battle

George said the problem with intensive agriculture is the noun, not the adjective. The ecomodernist & neoliberal knives are out & it's vital to defend renewable local agrarianism

The Séralini affair seems a long time ago!

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Following up on this discussion from the other day, Gunnar's article is worth a read: gardenearth.substack.com/p/the-methane-…. Helps show how basic points can be right while a wider argument built on them can be wrong.

Missed this 2023 piece by Knezevic, Alison Blay-Palmer & Clause! - Recalibrating Data on Farm Productivity: Why We Need Small Farms for Food Security mdpi.com/2507256 #mdpisustainability via Sustainability h/t Chris Smaje

For info, in addition to my 'Saying NO...' book, I itemise various critiques by me and others of George Monbiot's basic points here: chrissmaje.com/the-saying-no-…… - including, among other things, his mistaken energy figures for bacterial protein powder.

The food futures discussion is disastrously ill-served by George Monbiot & his ilk. Meanwhile the corporates ram synbio food through the regulatory process despite major concerns gmwatch.org/en/106-news/la…. How can we voice alternatives to mainstream state-corporate solutionism?