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

  • Farage vs Binface (or Sartyr vs Satire)

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    Colin Tudge

    Colin Tudge reflects on the upcoming by-election in Clacton on August 13 To my chagrin, Nigel Farage went to my school, Dulwich College, albeit 21 years after I did. He, or rather his parents, paid the fees. I, like by brother before me, went on a scholarship; a direct grant of the kind that is…

  • Building Food Resilience

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    Suzanne Wynn

    Growing your own food not only builds the nations food resilience but also gives you tastier and more nutritious fruit and vegetables.

  • The absolute importance of hedgehogs!

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    guest author 

    One of the most unlikely collisions in my world happened in early July when I had a phone call from a Rabbi, asking whether I would be happy with him mentioning me on ‘Thought for the Day’ – the religious slot on BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today Programme. I first worked with Jonathan Wittenberg, Senior…

  • The Makerfield by-election and the future of life on earth

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    Colin Tudge

    Colin Tudge argues that the upcoming by-election in Makerfield has implications that resonate far beyond the confines of a Manchester suburb  The by-election to be held in Makerfield, Manchester, on June 18 is a blip in the history of politics – but is much more significant than it may seem.  If Andy Burnham wins for…

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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

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  3. Decades have been wasted bickering about man-made climate change even though there are several actions which make sense regardless of…