Chris Smaje
Person on 4 sites
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…
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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11 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Factory-made bacterial protein cannot feed the world, because meeting humanity's protein needs that way would take more electricity than the planet generates from renewables. (opens korrents.com)
“To meet the global population’s protein needs through factory-produced bacterial protein in 2024 would have used more than the total global electricity generated using renewable (hydro, photovoltaic and wind) energy”
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Farming is the one large sector still powered directly by free sunlight, and replacing it with factory food would spend the renewable electricity every other sector needs. (opens korrents.com)
“Agriculture is the only major sector that at present is significantly energised directly by zero cost and zero carbon sunlight.”
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"Food from thin air" is not from thin air: it runs on water, minerals, ammonia and industrial plant. (opens korrents.com)
“Another 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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Factory-made bacterial protein cannot feed the world, because meeting humanity's protein needs that way would take more electricity than the planet generates from renewables. (opens korrents.com)
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8 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (opens rcmnd.app)
“As is my wont, I'm going to spend more time talking about what I disagree with in the book than what I agree with, because I find it more generative. But let me begin with a quick summary of its merits, which are…”
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Against the Vortex: Zardoz and Degrowth Utopias in Seventies and Today (opens rcmnd.app)
“in his book, Against the Vortex: Zardoz and Degrowth Utopias in Seventies and Today. I wrote about his book here, and I'd thoroughly recommend it”
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The Agricultural Dilemma (opens rcmnd.app)
“I'd thoroughly recommend Glenn Davis Stone The Agricultural Dilemma, Douglas Rushkoff Survival of the Richest (thanks to Christine for the tipoff), Giorgos Kallis Limits, James Rebanks English Pastoral and Jim Handy…”
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Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (opens rcmnd.app)