O_o Moving to Jupiter does sound like it would present certain rather extreme logistical problems.

Chris Smaje's stuff sounds interesting—I'll keep an eye out for those books. Interesting that he's apparently been arguing about this with George Monbiot, whose work I admired very much a few years ago, though I haven't been keeping up with it recently.

Well, my Swedish may not be good enough to read the book in question, but the ground-living fungi of sandy pine forests—and all obscure corners of natural history—are always interesting :)