An invitation to the People-Led Renaissance
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This is the first of a series of articles by what we hope will be a variety of authors on the ideas and courses of action needed to rescue the world from what threatens to be a final descent into collapse. For if we just did conceptually simple things well then we — humanity and…
The matter of human numbers: less is more
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…
The matter of human numbers: the problem that dare not speak its name
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…
The madness of King Donald
Though the US is now directly involved in the conflicts of the Middle East the roots of the troubles lie deep in history, far pre-dating the US itself. Beyond doubt, though, the Far Right mindset and the neoliberal economy that America in general and Donald Trump in particular have brought to bear on the world’s…
Trump, Putin, and Xi Jinping – and the nightmare of 1984
Colin Tudge suggests that the world is now more or less precisely in the state that George Orwell described 80 years ago in one of the greatest of all dystopian works of literature George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1948 when memories of World War II and Hitler were still fresh – indeed the full extent…
Of HS2 and GMOs
Not harbingers of progress, says Colin Tudge, but symptoms of folly. Why do we continue to make the same mistakes? Rishi Sunak has been desperately trying to explain to a bewildered nation and his own party and perhaps to himself why HS2 was a brilliant initiative when the government of which he was a part…
The absolute importance of the grassroots
A meeting in Bristol next month – “Planet Local Summit” – will discuss the kind of initiatives that are needed if ever we’re to put the world to rights As the world burns and floods and the world’s most powerful people continue to offer more of the same — or else are in denial or…