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Colin Tudge’s Great Re‑Think

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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Recent articles from the Blog

The Changing Food Scene

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Suzanne Wynn

The good and bad news about the way we ate in 2025.

How many people can the earth support?

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guest author 

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 from the situation … Read more

The matter of human numbers: less is more

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Colin Tudge

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 … Read more

Slow Cooking

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Suzanne Wynn

Slow Cooking is the method called for in the deep mid-winter. There are more benefits, and applications than you might imagine.

The Big Idea

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.

Colin Tudge among some of John Letts’s Heritage wheat in Buckinghamshire

Recent comments

  1. Many thanks for this, Andrew. Points taken. However: More and more, it strikes me that the conventional approaches to the…

  2. Dear Colin, You say that “The most serious divide in the present world is…between those who realize the gravity of…

  3. Thank you Susie. What fascinates me in your reply is the fact that your church is selling walnuts ready shelled.…

  4. Wonderfully interesting, useful and inspiring article on line about growing walnuts. We have just planted 21 small trees, grown on…

  5. Dear Colin, I have greatly enjoyed reading your latest outstanding essay on overpopulation, highly insightful and informative, hitting all those…