The Year of The Flood contains a dark warning of what the future may become if people continue to destroy the earth with greed and put corporations first.
The flood in The Year of the Flood is a “waterless flood” or a deadly disease that wipes out the majority of people. The few that survive were just lucky that they happened to be protected at the time.
Environmentalists in The Year of the Flood
Most of the survivors in The Year of the Flood are or become “God’s Gardeners” which is sort of a hippy cult. They’re vegetarian, gorilla gardeners and they only use found or handmade items. There are existing similarities to these environmentalists in groups like the Freegans and Food Not Bombs.
Read more at Suite101: The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
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