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.
Thanks again Colin for the space to discuss and think about such important topics. I am possibly going to strain…
Thanks Colin. Another discourse that merits much thought and discussion. I reread your chapterlet from The Great Rethink- ‘How Can…
Many thanks for this, Christopher. This is an odd statement from Dawkins because at times he and his followers have…
Colin, Thank you for your latest blog. On reading it I immediately scoured my library for a book I had…
You make a good point about variety throughout the year. I like the work that the Zoe project has been…