Crows Calling: Reflections on Humanity’s Role in the World

Crows Calling: An Inspiring Journey into our Better Natures—a novel ecologist Paul Hawken calls “a parable of wisdom and kindness told through the eyes of the living world”—joins ten-year-old Luz as she witnesses a council of animals confronting the menace of climate change. Led by a lustrous—and talkative—crow named Koro, the animals weigh their options. Some, like Koro, want to collaborate with humans. Others doubt humanity’s good intentions. The conversation compels young Luz, innately in tune with the natural world, to fight passionately in its defense. At once a work of fact-based activism and a moving coming-of-age, Crows Calling carries the reader through natural disasters, greed, and the everyday exigencies of living which threaten the cross-species alliance’s efforts to find unity and resolve the climate crisis.