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News of the Earth, by Homero Aridjis

Homero Aridjis’s News of the Earth is the translated and updated version of his 2012 collection of essays Noticias de la Tierra. In this anthology, the internationally acclaimed Mexican author and environmental activist offers an extensive selection of writings that chronicle his advocacy for the protection of the environment since his founding of the Group of 100 in 1985. The volume consists of 121 articles published primarily in Mexican and United States newspapers over the course of the last thirtythree years with a focus on the Group of 100’s “most important battles and victories.” It is divided into eleven chapters: Mexico City and the Group of 100, Grandeur and Misery of the Monarch Butterfly, Sea Turtles, A Torturous Road to Extinction, And God Created the Great Whales, Our America, Our Mexico, The Indigenous Labyrinth, Mexico in Flames, Endangered Mexico, The Global War on Animals, and The Earth Belongs to Everyone. The first chapter begins with the “Declaration by 100 Intellectuals and Artists Protesting Air Pollution in Mexico City” that initiated the group’s activism. The criticisms of governmental corruption and negligence launched in the opening essay as well as the urgent call for action become one of the volume’s leitmotifs. Each of the first four chapters focuses on a particular environmental threat. These include dangerously high ozone levels in Mexico City, illegal loggers’ destruction of the monarch butterfly’s forest habitat in Michoacán, the ruthless massacre of sea turtles and poaching of their eggs on Mexican shorelines, and Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Issue 97, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2018, 301–303