The unpredictable weather patterns in Africa, the rise of earth's
surface temperature, the melting of polar ice caps, rising of sea levels
and the blazing wildfires in the Americas and Australia call for urgent
action to conserve Mother Nature or risk Armageddon, the final
destruction of the planet. This is the subject that runs through this
compilation of stories to reiterate Wangari Maathai's assertion that the
future of the planet concerns all of us and we should do what we can to
protect it. It is the intention of debut and established authors of this
anthology to perpetuate Maathai's legacy to avert Mother
Natures' vengeance against humanity. The Armageddon and Other Stories,
therefore, breaks away from conventional social and political themes on
the African literary scene to depict the demerits of deforestation,
pollution, logging, the relegation of climate change, and other concerns
of ecocriticism. At the crux of the anthology is the argument that the
tendency to use financial profits to measure the success of commercial
institutions without considering their role in environmental
conservation is misleading. - Andrew Nyongesa.
Air, water, and earth are the basic amenities of life. Humans have
constantly tampered with nature. Cyclical processes that nature has
designed for resource conservation are fragrantly interfered with. As a
result, the threat to life has been increased due to human activities in
the environment. Some of these are air, water, and noise pollution;
deforestation, blind industrialization, over-population; waste disposal,
climate change, global warming, the greenhouse effect, and the imbalance
established in the biosphere. The stories herein serve to spread
environmental awareness in our society as well as in our daily routine
life. It is necessary to save and protect our environment. - John
Mugubi.
