Voltaire and hope in the garden
A very depressing report in today’s newspapers about a new report on global warming predicting all sorts of terrible things. It makes me feel so helpless, and also as though I should be doing more…
We already:
Save water in every way we can, watering the garden entirely from grey washing machine water and other drips
Are signed up with a provider of green energy, so our electricity use does not add to global warming
Are members of greenfleet Greenfleet, which plants trees to offset the emissions we can’t get rid of.
It still doesn’t feel like enough.
Why garden at a time like this?
Perhaps it is when the world is troubled that we most need to revisit the central truths, and the old certainties. The French philosopher and writer Voltaire depicted a world of unmitigated corruption and despair in his novel “Candide”. It was a devastating satire. But at the end of his terrible journey through disease and disaster, the central character declares “il faut cultiver notre jardin“.
We must cultivate our gardens.
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