The Battle for Air

Air is everywhere, yet it is never empty. It carries the imprint of what societies build, burn, neglect, and choose to protect.

The Battle for Air: The Covenant We Breathe examines the atmosphere as both a physical system and a shared human inheritance. John S. Pritchett explores how air quality shapes health, cities, economies, migration, inequality, technology, politics, culture, memory, and the future of life itself.

For generations, air was treated as limitless: an invisible commons capab...