The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates - Couverture souple

Ross, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1945335440 ISBN 13 : 9781945335440

Editeur : Common Notions, 2025

Synopsis

From acclaimed public scholar Andrew Ross, groundbreaking reporting on climate change and the horizons of a just future from Palestine, UAE, Arizona, and China. Between the summers of 2023 and 2024, temperatures rose, coastal areas flooded, and droughts and fires raged inland. Unprecedented tornadoes, hurricanes, and typhoons of astonishing force revealed the disturbances roiling the air and the oceans. More species than ever before disappeared from the planet in what scientists are calling Earth’s Sixth Great Extinction. Reports from the front lines of the climate crisis have always been grim, but this past year was worse than any other, measurably more catastrophic in more ways for more animals and more people. In his travels during this tumultuous year, public intellectual and noted scholar Andrew Ross criss-crossed the world, visiting Ramallah (Palestine), Dubai (UAE), Phoenix (USA), and Shanghai (China)—some of the landscapes most disturbed by human activity, whether through active warfare or massive development projects. But rather than offering another eco-polemic or recalling for us the dread prognostications of Malthus in the 19th century or Ehrlich in the 20th, The Weather Report is a clear-eyed and essentially optimistic book that proposes a pragmatic, just, and urgent new common ground reestablishing scalable projects of mutual aid and care as a new, essential center for our economic, ecological, and social well-being.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Ross is a social activist and Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. A contributor to the Guardian, the New York Times, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and Al Jazeera, he is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, including, most recently, Abolition Labor: The Fight to End Prison Slavery. He has published more than 300 articles in a wide variety of outlets.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Common Notions
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1945335440
• ISBN 13: 9781945335440
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible