i’ve got one reason
Apparently the phrase often attributed to Adlai Stevenson in praise of Eleanor Roosevelt - in an address to the United Nations General Assembly in 1962:
“She would rather light candles than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.” is based on a chinese proverb
“‘Don’t curse the darkness - light a candle.”
There is a plenty of darkness in the world and too few candles. We seem to have decided that raging wildfires have more appeal. It reminds me of a bush saying about campfires, the bigger the fire, the bigger the fool.
Imagine a night, all the lights went out and all that we did was light a single candle. Would the world stop, would the bad things be less bad? The glow of a candle makes it seem so.