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.
Your understanding and insight about E.F. Schumacher and Small is Beautiful is very clear and timely. You have correctly identified…
Great stuff! I agree with you that these four are top prophets for our age. Schumacher in fact did come…
Bertrand Russell once wrote: “It is said that man is a rational animal but over 60 years and in three…
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Dear Colin, Finding this morning, to my huge delight, very recent commentaries of yours on the Net, I venture to…