Ecomodernists offer no solutions to contemporary problems other than technical innovation and further integration into private markets which are structured systematically by centralized state power in favour of the wealthy… Chris Smaje "Ecomodernism: a Response to my Critics", Originally published September 10, 2015 by Small Farm Future In 2017, the then Monsanto Chief Technology Officer
Defining local, ecological, neo-distributist alternatives poses knotty problems, like how to build a broad-based, mass movement to supersede modern state politics, that's opposed in its essence to mass movements and state politics.