By Genie Gratto, Senior Project Manager
In a thought-provoking article in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan asks the question: Why bother about climate change at all? The problem is too big to address one person at a time, one action at a time. “There are so many stories we can tell ourselves to justify doing nothing, but perhaps the most insidious is that, whatever we do manage to do, it will be too little too late,” Pollan says.
So it may be, but Pollan advocates for taking small actions, nonetheless, and argues passionately for everyone to plant something from seed, nourish it with homemade compost, and grow even a little of their own food. Gardening-particularly kitchen gardening-is such an earth-affirming activity that it can’t help but make the doer think differently about the natural world and their impact on it. As a gardener myself, I can’t help but agree.
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