We’re on our second reading, back-to-back, of Mr. Smaje’s excellent reply to, specifically, George Monbiot’s recent Regenesis, and, more generally, the ecomodernist suggestion (future compulsion, if its proponents can make it so) that the human race must be radically urbanized and fed on a diet of hyper-manufactured foods if the world is not shortly to perish in flames. Chelsea Green Publishing, once again, you make us proud of you.

If you’re fuzzy on why small farming is the only answer, and factory foods won’t work, read this ‘Case for an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods‘.