We Are the Weather: Jonathan Safran Foer with Aminatou Sow

Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish between those who didn’t believe in the science of global warming and those who said they accepted the science but failed to change their lives in response?

In We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. The task of saving the planet will involve a great reckoning with ourselves—with our all-too-human reluctance to sacrifice immediate comfort for the sake of the future. We have, he reveals, turned our planet into a farm for growing animal products, and the consequences are catastrophic. Only collective action will save our home and way of life. And it all starts with what we eat—and don’t eat—for breakfast.

Join us as Jonathan Safran Foer sits down in conversation Aminatou Sow, co-host of Call Your Girlfriend podcast and co-founder of Tech LadyMafia.

This event is co-sponsored by McNally Jackson Books and the Food Studies Program at the Schools of Public Engagement at The New School. Bea Banu, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Food Studies Program, will provide the opening remarks.