The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates
The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates
Andrew Ross
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.
Product Details
ISBN: 9781945335440
Published: September 9, 2025
Format: Paperback
Size: 6.0 x 9.0 in
Page count: 256
Other Formats
ISBN: 9781945335587
Published: September 9, 2025
Format: EPUB
Reviews
“In these days of soaring temperatures and carbon emissions, we may not need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, but we certainly need guidance about how to sustain the fight for climate justice. In his brilliant new book, Andrew Ross provides a clear-eyed report about the storms already buffeting the most vulnerable, while also offering visions of a salvaged future.
The Weather Report dismantles dystopian accounts of environmental scarcity that have become increasingly common as the climate crisis intensifies. Taking readers to four different parts of the globe, Ross shows how struggles for access to water and energy are the product not so much of overpopulation as of inequality, injustice, and maldistribution. Ross’s book thereby dismantles the key ideologies driving the new eco-fascism. He also offers vibrant examples of popular alternatives, from the ‘resistance farming’ of Palestinian agricultural cooperatives to humanitarian volunteers distributing aid, to border crossers in Arizona, to women in Shanghai who refuse to have children in the face of pro-natalist government propaganda. Now more than ever, we need hope for better days–and calmer weather–to come.”–Ashley Dawson, author of Environmentalism from Below: How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet
“This is a brilliant, humane, and consequential book. Whether addressing eco-fascism, procreational politics, genocide, or climate breakdown, Ross is never less than astute. With Strange Weather and Bird on Fire, The Weather Report completes Ross’s environmental trilogy, establishing him as one of the most significant scholar-activists working at the crossroads where environmental and social justice converge.” –Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
“Could there be a more timely book than Andrew Ross’s The Weather Report? This is not only because it is well-written, provocative, and starts and ends with the horrors of Palestine, but since the book is grounded in these sorts of local perspectives—that also include Arizona, the UAE, and Shanghai–it takes the analysis of climate change to a deeper, more insightful, and quite frankly more refreshing level. As rendered by Ross, a veteran reporter allergic to despair, we get a global tour de force that gives us the Sumud perspective on climate that the world has been hungering for.”–Todd Miller, author of Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security