City of Clio issued the following announcement on Aug 14.
DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX CELEBRATES its 50th anniversary the same week. The conflict between the industrious, polluting Once-ler and the feisty Lorax, who "speaks for the trees," feels more prescient than ever.
"He wanted a book that captured the effects of pollution on ecosystems and I would say it was really ahead of its time," says anthropologist and evolutionary biologist Nathaniel Dominy, who teaches at Dartmouth. "The different species disappear from the narrative in succession," he notes. "The Bar-ba-loots leave because they run out of food. The Swomee-Swans leave because the air is polluted. The humming fish leave because the water's polluted. He's describing what we would now call a 'trophic cascade,' and for me, as a scientist, I just find that genius that he anticipated that concept by a decade or more."
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/12/1026385429/the-lorax-dr-seuss
Original source can be found here.
Source: City of Clio
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