Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle; A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era
From the Zazu Dreams website:
"Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era is a cross-cultural, intergenerational book about climate justice, racial equity, love, and deep science. Endorsed by Noam Chomsky, Eve Ensler, James E. Hansen, Rabbi Lerner, David Orr, SHKG Humpty Hump, Thom Hartmann, Paul Hawken, and Bill McKibben among other activists, and scientists, Zazu Dreams unravels the complexities of our climate crisis as it celebrates our interconnectedness through indigenous wisdom, economic, literary, environmental science, and historical resources. It explores contemporary manifestations of erasing cultural difference and ecosystem diversity. The characters become increasingly aware of environmental relationships to humanitarian crises; while in each country they visit, they witness how, for hundreds of generations throughout the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia, symbiosis between humans and nature has been the norm. Along the way, they learn from historic cross-cultural philosophers, scientists, and artists as well as Big Oil, Big Pharma, and Agribusiness giants that stalk planet Earth. Zazu Dreams crosses the border between diasporic identities with environmental action. Lush illustrations and encyclopedic endnotes explore the intersections between the sciences and humanities. Intended to ignite dialogue and collective action, Zazu Dreams is a combination of magical realism and an interdisciplinary environmental-science resource guide (deriving from Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project)."
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