Andrew Ross on The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates

<p dir="ltr"><em>e-flux journal</em> Associate Editor Andreas Petrossiants talks to author Andrew Ross about his recent book, <em>The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates</em>.</p> <p dir="ltr">Between the summers of 2023 and 2024, Andrew Ross visited 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. Rather than offering another eco-polemic or recalling for us the dread prognostications of Malthus in the 19th century or Ehrlich in the 20th, <em>The Weather Report </em>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.</p>