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A modest proposal from Colin Tudge to establish a new, people-led initiative to save the world from terminal decline Part I: WHAT IS AND WHAT COULD BE On every front there is disaster: ecological, social, political, economic, moral, spiritual; and, unsurprisingly, a pervading mood of pessimism and indeed of despair. Yet if only we –…
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Colin Tudge argues that we need to bring far wider dimensions – ecological, evolutionary, and indeed cosmic – into discussions on human population. Not to do so is “a dereliction of duty” As I argued in my blog on human population on November 10: “… because the issues are so emotive, the subject has become…
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Slow Cooking is the method called for in the deep mid-winter. There are more benefits, and applications than you might imagine.
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The derek cooper award This month, out of the blue and marvellously, Ruth and I became the proud recipients of one of the BBC Food Programme’s Food and Farming Awards; to wit, “the Derek Cooper Award for Outstanding Achievement”. It is a great honour and a great fillip. Derek was a fine writer and a…
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I ended each chapter with a few recipes plagiarised from various sources but modified in the light of what was then the orthodox nutritional theory. The emphasis was on low-fat, under the influence of the American physiologist / nutritionist Ancel Keys (1904-2004). Keys’s general idea – that we should follow a basically Mediterranean diet –…
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No issue is more divisive than that of human population. Anyone who ventures to discuss it in public risks abuse, or worse, from all sides. But, says Colin Tudge, no one should doubt that human numbers matter. We cannot afford simply to duck the issue. Sir David Attenborough tells us that the human population has…