My latest "Going Green" column picks up on how Mary Wollstonecraft (left), author of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, explained what thinking was to her young daughter: it was about noticing there was someone else in the room.
For this reason, going green isn’t left-wing or right-wing. It isn’t a threat. It isn’t a conspiracy by scientists or a means of introducing socialism by the back door. It isn’t even anti anything much, except boorishness. (Though boorishness has many manifestations.) Its real enemy is not-thinking. If you poison the well, people can’t drink from it. If you overfish the ocean, you end up with no fish. If you burn coal, you warm the planet.
Country diary: A ghostly old canal enlivened by primroses and stitchwort |
Anita Roy
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*Langford Budville, Somerset: *The endless rain here has felt portentous,
but it is bringing colour and sound to the banksides and hills
Signs and wonder...
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