Guest Editorials

Share this article: Andrew Lack takes issue with Colin Tudge’s suggestion that we, humanity, should be aiming for a world population of one billion rather than the 10 billion that now seems liable to come about  Colin has suggested that a billion people on earth may be sustainable, requiring an eight-fold or even greater reduction…

Share this article: Rabbi Jeffery Newman reflects on the harmony of life, as is manifest in science, in religion, and is visible in a clod of earth Civilisation rests on six inches of soil. The film of that name — Six Inches of Soil (Colin Ramsay, 2024) has made this truth newly visible to a…

Share this article: 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…

Share this article: Modern technologies seem to be enabling us to do almost anything we want. Our main task now, is to decide what it is we do want to do, and why  We have reached a point in human evolution where we seem able to achieve almost anything we can imagine. Advances in genetic…

Share this article: Christian theologian Tim Gorringe argues that “To trash or seek to dominate this Creation is not simply unethical but is ‘the most horrid blasphemy’” In his recent blog “Fellow Creatures” Colin Tudge suggests that the traditional Christian attitude to the natural world is inadequate, not to say flawed. Christians, he says, take…

Share this article: To create the kind of world that could keep humanity and our fellow creatures in good heart we need radical thinking and new ideas. But first, says Jane Powell,  we need to create the conditions — the “space” —  in which the necessary thinking can take place  Discussions of food and farming…