This website is intended to identify and develop the ideas needed to rescue humanity and our fellow creatures from what is now the brink of total disaster — for if only we did conceptually simple things well then we and our fellow creatures could still be looking forward to a long and glorious future: the next million years for starters.
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The Big Idea is divided into the following chapters:
The pic — of me (CT) among some of John Letts’ Heritage wheat in Buckinghamshire — encapsulates some of the prime themes of The Great Re-Think. For John raises genetically diverse cereals on soils of low fertility year-on-year: no fertilizer, no pesticide, no herbicide, no digging, no fallow, and all wonderfully wildlife-friendly: key principles of agroecology applied to arable. All this is the complete opposite of the modern, industrial trend — monocultures of uniform crops chemicalized to the hilt. To rescue the world at this late hour we need to apply such radical thinking to all aspects of life.
As Secretary of my local Green Party, I’m pleased to see that when commenting on the blindness of most of…
Dear Iain Many thanks for this. A few thoughts: 1: So what if the very rich did clear off to…
Hi Colin, Many thanks for that although I fear that attempts to tax the rich will see them head for…
Some observations: Overall I reckon we have put too much emphasis on our left brain abilities: intellectual reasoning with the…
With such a centralised political structure in this country it can be easy to conclude that we have no agency…