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.
Dear Steve Thanks for this: an interesting insight into the thinking and mindset of at least some Trump supporters. To…
Colin, I don’t understand the demonization of 50% of the population as ghouls. We are witnessing something quite remarkable. Some…
Not to mention the 2nd amendment of the Constitution of 1789 which they like to think gives them the right…
Thank u Colin and Tim for wonderful and timely insights as to how we shoudl approach food and farming… and…
FROM HUGH EDWARDS dated December 3 2024 HOW MANY SICK FATTIES? Colin’s latest newsletter (no. 18) opens with the grand…