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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.

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Recent articles from the Blog

Food with a Sense of Place

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Suzanne Wynn

How mass production deprives us of food that has a real sense of place and how we can fight back.

The bedrock principles of morality

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Colin Tudge

I have been taken to task for suggesting that we should live our lives and frame the economy according to the “Bedrock Principles of Ecology and Morality” It’s not the first bit the critics object to. Ecology after all is a science, or at least a collation of sciences. The task of science is to … Read more

How might we live in the future?  And what do we really need to do to enable us to live as well as possible? 

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guest author 

Chris Jones suggests that the high technologies we are developing now with such vigour and at such expense, are leading us into a future that is not realistic. So what do we need instead? We have become used to lives of increasing complexity, with a steady increase in the availability of ever smarter, labour-saving, pleasure-giving … Read more

Not much scope for optimism – but never lose hope!

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Colin Tudge

A fellow journalist, Barrie Lees, has written in pessimistic vein to tell me that my plans for A 21st Century Renaissance (April 2 2025) are unrealistic, or indeed forlorn (see comment number 7). Here’s my response:  Dear Barrie,  I’m not saying the Renaissance will in any sense be easy. I am merely saying it is … Read more

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.

Colin Tudge among some of John Letts’s Heritage wheat in Buckinghamshire

Recent comments

  1. Dear Colin Your article is very convincing. It is my pleasure to read it. Unfortunately many people in the world…

  4. Hi Colin “Convivial society, personal fulfilment and a flourishing biosphere” — sounds great! But wonder how it would work in…

  5. Dear Colin, I agree we need a revolution, but that is only going to happen if we, the people, elect…