Author of <strong>Finding Lights in a Dark Age</strong>, <strong>Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future</strong> and <strong>A Small Farm Future</strong>
A few further thoughts in this post on the matter of the state – what it is, what its past and future involves, and what does it mean to live within the jurisdiction of a singular state (‘the state I’m in’)? – arising out of discussions under my last post. But first, to go with […] The post The state I’m in appeared first on Chris Smaje .
Apologies for my slow turnover of blog posts here, which is likely to be ongoing. I’d planned to do a blog cycle about my book Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft, published by Chelsea Green last year, but somehow I’ve run out of steam for it and the moment seems [ ] The post Finding Lights in a Dark Age Discussion Forum appeared first on Chris Smaje .
Every year I take a look at the annual energy data published toward the end of June by the Energy Institute in order to ask the big question: Has the energy transition that everyone keeps talking about actually started yet? So far, the answer has always been no. Every year since 1983, total global fossil [ ] The post Stop Press, Same News: No energy transition, again appeared first on Chris Smaje…
This week sees a more personal anniversary for me than the Brexit celebrations/recriminations last time: it’s three years since I published my book Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future. In it, I criticised the idea that factory-produced bacterial food could be a realistic and significant ‘farm free’ alternative to food from agricultural land, as touted [ ] The post Saving the world from bad ideas: the…
There are a few anniversaries in the air at the moment. The one that looms in British politics is the tenth anniversary of the Brexit referendum, which was held on 23 June 2016. I daresay the media will soon be full of opinion pieces about it, so I thought I’d get mine in early and [ ] The post Ten years of Brexit: a small farm future special appeared first on Chris Smaje .
In this post I reflect on the main things I think will be necessary for ‘surviving the future’, to channel David Fleming. The post was prompted by comments under my last one, especially ones by Kathryn, Steve C and Walter. I was going to write my own comment underneath in reply, but I thought it [ ] The post The economic path ahead: four or two things to think about for surviving the future…
Sorry I’ve been so silent here of late. I’ve got a lot of work on various fronts, some of which I may mention here soon, which is keeping me from blogging. But if there s a Small Farm Future/Dark Age Light hole in your life, do listen in to this Crazy Town podcast I did with [ ] The post The path ahead appeared first on Chris Smaje .
Apologies that I’m not finding much time at the moment to write new blog posts, a situation that will probably continue for a while. Well, here’s one anyway, chiselled out from a couple of hours of idling on the internet recently and trying to catch up on world news by triangulating rather unoriginally between the [ ] The post Food, energy, capitalism, collapse appeared first on Chris Smaje .
Diverting briefly from my blog cycle about my recent book Finding Lights in a Dark Age, here I m going to continue my polite discussion with Tom Murphy about the human condition past, present and future – and, more specifically, about the place of foraging (gathering and hunting) vis-à-vis farming in it. My thanks to Tom for [ ] The post Foragers and farmers: further thoughts on a debate with Tom…
Continuing my stately progress through my book Finding Lights in a Dark Age, we come next to the Introduction, entitled ‘An Arc of Future Earth’. But first a couple of quick housekeeping notices. Apologies to a couple of commenters whose comments sat for a long while in the moderation queue without me noticing, now approved. [ ] The post An arc of future Earth appeared first on Chris Smaje .
It’s about time I wrote some posts about my recently published book Finding Lights in a Dark Age. There are twelve chapters in the book plus a preface, introduction and afterward, so my intention is to write fifteen posts about the book in all, one for each of these segments. And, as a bonus, one [ ] The post Ragnarök revisited appeared first on Chris Smaje .