Matthew R. Sanderson is the Randall C. Hill Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Professor of Geography and Geospatial Sciences in the School of Earth and Environment at Kansas State University. As a social scientist, he is exploring human-environment interactions in agricultural contexts.
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Robert Jensen argues that ‘fewer and less’ is unavoidable. But the future is not fixed
It is true that no high-energy society has ever halved its material throughput and existed at that level across generations. But an absent precedent for an unprecedented situation merely tells us the situation is new, not what people will do.
October 1, 2026
