Why did Linda love this book?
Naturalist Colin Tudge, well known for The Secret Life of Birds and The Secret Life of Trees, is immensely knowledgeable and an engaging thinker.
The Great Re-Think is an ambitious and heartfelt project in which he examines sustainability, government, ethics, environment (though 'biosphere' is his preferred term, 'environment' having been degraded by over-use and commodification), food and farming, the past and the future of how we see the planet and our place in it.
He outlines that "All human action should be guided by moral/metaphysical principles on the one hand, and by the principles of ecology on the other." We do indeed need a great re-think of how we use and abuse the planet's resources - and urgently.
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All too plausibly, it seems, popes and scientists are warning us of impending collapse-yet humanity and our fellow creatures could still be looking forward to a long and glorious future: at least a million years of peace and personal fulfilment, with abundant and diverse wildlife.
But to achieve this we need to re-think everything that we do and take for granted, from the day-to-day mundanities of growing and cooking, to the economy and methods of governance, to the most arcane reaches of science and metaphysics.
It all amounts to nothing less than a Renaissance-a re-birth-and the Renaissance to come must…