Colin Tudge’s Great Re‑Think
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.
Recent articles from the Blog
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The Renaissance Movement: Part 1 WHAT IS AND WHAT COULD BE
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COLIN TUDGE PROPOSES A NEW, PEOPLE-LED INITIATIVE TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM TERMINAL DECLINE On every front there is disaster: ecological, social, political, economic, moral, spiritual; and, unsurprisingly, a pervading mood of pessimism and indeed of despair. Yet if only we – humanity – worked together, and did conceptually simple things well, we might still…
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The Renaissance Movement: Part 2 AN AGENDA FOR RENAISSANCE
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THE THINGS WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT AND DO TO PUT THE WORLD BACK ON AN EVEN KEEL To bring about the Renaissance that is so urgently required we need: To rethink everything we do and take for granted from first principles; to rethink everything in the light of everything else; and to re-structure where…
The Big Idea
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.
Recent comments
Dear Colin, Yes, a very good rethink. ‘Movement’ is decisively better than ‘party’. We have all been overstuffed with inorganic…
Dear Colin, Thank you so much for your impassioned appeal to us all to dig in with ideas and propositions…
Very good, all power to your elbows, Colin, Ruth et al! And hold onto ‘Respair’ – as per, recovery from…
In brief: I think this is a really bold and brave decision to take. A movement that can point its…
Colin, Thank you for this, as ever, you manage to articulate both the gravity of the moment and the scale…