George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/06/20258. Her post continues as follows. She congratulates herself on buying marble offcuts, but how about the environmental impacts of living in two homes? 4895 0
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/06/20259. Not only does it mean two sets of white goods, furniture etc etc etc; it also means that another home needs be built to accommodate the family that might otherwise have lived there. 21158 0
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/06/202510. Now onto food systems. To me, her approach exemplifies what I call “the cruel fantasies of well-fed people”. Indeed, she wrote the foreword to the book this article is about, and it applies just as much to her approach as it does to Chris Smaje’s. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...monbiot.comThe Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed PeopleThe astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death 49813 0
Sarah Richards @sarahrichards.bsky.social · 28/06/2025It also has the whiff of Empire. Take possession of far flung acres, then plunder to bring fruits and eye-catching ornament home. At minimal cost - except to the plundered. 020 0
