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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

The absolute importance of “Cryptonutrients” and why “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”

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Colin Tudge

The following – based on a on a lecture I gave in 1999 at the Royal Society no less – is an example of a “paradigm shift”: one that is now taking the science of nutrition into the realms of microbiology and evolutionary biology.

Who are the real friends of science?

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Colin Tudge

Science is indeed wondrous but it has limitations – which, as Sir Paul Nurse demonstrated in a popular and doubtless influential article published in 2021, are not always recognized by some of its most adept practitioners.

What will be the message of British Science Week?

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Colin Tudge

British Science Week is celebrating science – which indeed we ought to do. But, says Colin Tudge, we must discuss the caveats too.

Rotten Tomatoes

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Suzanne Wynn

The parlous state of the British food system was laid bare for all to see, or rather not see, from the empty shelves in supermarkets this February. The loudest complaint concerned lack of tomatoes, but other salad ingredients such as cucumbers and peppers were absent. Why were people expecting to find these things in February?

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 Iain, Thanks for the link on Food Security, you seem to have every angle covered and its helpful to…

  2. The author in the article asks “Why do whole societies of people, millions of them, so often allow one extremely…

  4. Hi Suzanne, I’ve corresponded with Colin over the years so wonder if you can use this on food security: https://climatecoalition.org/future-food-security-must-focus-on-supplies/…

  5. Dear Colin, Los Cedros in Ecuador is located in the cloud forest region about 4 hours’ drive from Quito and…