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
George Beans @rubblechops.bsky.social · 28/06/2025So unsurprisingly, she is a massive hypocrite🙄 030 0
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/06/202511. The cottagecore aesthetic seems to me to override rather more important questions, such as how 8, 9 or 10 billion people are going to be fed without crashing Earth systems. I argue in that essay that some people appear to privilege their comfort zones above useful answers to these questions. 21099 0
Sarah Richards @sarahrichards.bsky.social · 28/06/2025What a great piece. Hard not to be reminded of Dr Yellowlees as he witnessed the collapse of the diet of his Highlands patients: “Field cabbages are sometimes grown to feed prize bulls, but not for humans…” soilandhealth.org/wp-content/u... (pub. 1985) His book “Doctor in the Wilderness” is superb.soilandhealth.org 151 0
ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 30/06/2025George is probably a bit too young to remember Usenet newsgroups, which predated the internet as we know it, www, and browsers. Back in the day I was a frequent participant in sci.environment, and the question of feeding the growing population without trashing the planet ... 110 0
