Chris Smaje

Writer, small-scale farmer, social scientist. Seeking low-energy localism by design so it doesn't arrive by default. @chrissmaje.bsky.social

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New essay 'RIP The Land, 2006-2026'

https://t.co/k5jaDpTo7G

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New essay 'The state I'm in', about the state I'm in ... and the state I'm in!

https://t.co/kgusEJOanq

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New essay 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Discussion Forum'

https://t.co/TuJFi2K9X0

The place to raise comments & questions about my book of that name...

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New essay 'Stop Press, Same News: No energy transition, again' https://t.co/2EV3R9a0Me on the continuing failure of an energy transition to happen

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@REGENETARIANISM @JayneReesBuxton Well I must admit to feeling hoodwinked by him in the past, mistaking his '3 cheers for the underdog & yah-boo to the powerful' rhetoric for something real. Perhaps I was late to see his true colours, now evident in his Bezos-funded shenanigans etc. But not as late as some, alas!

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@REGENETARIANISM @JayneReesBuxton Yes, that's the one. Agreed about the problem of getting heard. IMO Monbiot used to hold a bit more nuance & direct his polemics more appropriately at state-corporate malefactors. Alas he's become a corporate enabler whose residual radicalism only obfuscates the role he's playing

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@JoannaBlythman Thanks Joanna!

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@JayneReesBuxton @GeorgeMonbiot @REGENETARIANISM @sustain4sinners @1GarethWynJones @JeremyClarkson @NoFarmsNoFoods @NadalineW Thanks Jayne!

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@weplanetint @mark_lynas @GeorgeMonbiot I've published a response to George's frankly defamatory comments about me in the pod & to the wider failures of bacterial food here: https://t.co/Fh2Uhi6CK5

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It's 3 years since I published 'Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future' & 6 days since @GeorgeMonbiot 'paraphrased' its argument as "to hell with the rest of the world & let them starve". Anniversary thoughts on why George & farm-free are so dangerous: https://t.co/hAjdB3osq3...

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New essay 'Ten years of Brexit: a small farm future special'

https://t.co/qUGYaOVR3z

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New essay 'The economic path ahead: four or two things to think about for surviving the future'

https://t.co/bRvetksiBc

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@agronomistag Hi Andy, good to hear from you. Well, oil demand hasn't peaked yet! Yes it wasn't limited at the source as some thought, so it might be limited at the sink. Add in -ve growth as in your interesting article, nature loss etc & your punt that collapse isn't coming looks bold to me!

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New essay 'The path ahead'

https://t.co/gGX5FhRboV

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My Crazy Town podcast with with Jason Bradford is now out - I really enjoyed the wide-ranging conversation with a kindred spirit!

https://t.co/UREKBi6G8D

#DarkAgeLight

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New essay, continuing my debate with Tom Murphy about the rights and wrongs of farming and foraging:

https://t.co/gCPofZkx3L

[Jason Snyder @cognazor]

I recommend these books by @csmaje for a detailed discussion of why this is not only desirable, but necessary for humanity's future

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New essay now out - https://t.co/fGlHfPEzAw

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My conversation with Adam Greenfield on his Lifepod about my recent book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' now out here:

https://t.co/WeYwB7djtX