In January 2022, World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of The End of Ice
with the author Dahr Jamail as part of a small group WBW book club
limited to a group of 18 participants (it says 17 for online
registration because 1 person has registered by check). We will send
each participant a paperback copy of the book. We'll let you know which
parts of the book will be discussed each week along with the Zoom
details to access the discussions.
When: For one
hour on four Wednesdays, January 5, 12, 19, 26, 2022. The time is 5 p.m.
Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern, 2 a.m. Central European, and so forth (noon the next day in
Sydney, 2 p.m. in Aukland):
Where: Zoom (details to be shared upon registration)
This is a small group series with limited space of up to 18 people. Sign up to reserve your spot and allow for enough time to receive the book. We look forward to reading and discussing this important book with you! Click here to learn more and register.
About the Book: After nearly a decade overseas as a war reporter, the acclaimed
journalist Dahr Jamail returned to America to renew his passion for
mountaineering, only to find that the slopes he had once climbed have
been irrevocably changed by climate disruption. In response, Jamail
embarks on a journey to the geographical front lines of this crisis—from
Alaska to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, via the Amazon rainforest—in
order to discover the consequences to nature and to humans of the loss
of ice.
In The End of Ice, we follow Jamail as he scales Denali, the
highest peak in North America, dives in the warm crystal waters of the
Pacific only to find ghostly coral reefs, and explores the tundra of St.
Paul Island where he meets the last subsistence seal hunters of the
Bering Sea and witnesses its melting glaciers. Accompanied by climate
scientists and people whose families have fished, farmed, and lived in
the areas he visits for centuries, Jamail begins to accept the fact that
Earth, most likely, is in a hospice situation. Ironically, this allows
him to renew his passion for the planet’s wild places, cherishing Earth
in a way he has never been able to before.
Like no other book, The End of Ice offers a firsthand
chronicle—including photographs throughout of Jamail on his journey
across the world—of the catastrophic reality of our situation and the
incalculable necessity of relishing this vulnerable, fragile planet
while we still can.
Jamail is currently helping create a full-length documentary with Abby Martin called The Earth's Greatest Enemy, about the role of militarism in climate destruction.
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About the Author: In late 2003, weary of the overall failure of the US media to
accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi
people, Dahr Jamail went to the Middle East to report on the war
himself, where he has spent more than one year in Iraq as one of only a
few independent US journalists in the country. Dahr has also reported
from Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. He has also reported extensively
on veterans’ resistance against US foreign policy, and is now focussing
on anthropogenic climate disruption and the environment.
Dahr’s stories have been published with Truthout, Inter Press Service, Tom Dispatch, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, The Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Huffington Post, The Nation, The Independent, Al Jazeera, and The New York Times, among others. Dahr is currently and has been a feature writer for Truthout.org for five years, and his climate feature page there is titled ‘Climate Disruption Dispatches‘.
His writing
has been translated into French, Polish, German, Dutch, Spanish,
Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic and Turkish. On radio as well as
television, Dahr has reported for Democracy Now! and Al-Jazeera, and has
appeared on the BBC, NPR, and numerous other stations around the globe.
Dahr’s reporting has earned him numerous awards, including the 2008
Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism, The Lannan Foundation Writing
Residency Fellowship, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice
Journalism, the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage, and five
Project Censored awards.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Izzy Award, in 2018 the Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College awarded Dahr an Izzy for
his “path-breaking and in-depth reporting in 2017” exposing
“environmental hazards and militarism.” The Izzy Award, presented for
outstanding achievement in independent media, is named in memory of I.F. “Izzy” Stone,
the dissident journalist who launched I.F. Stone’s Weekly in 1953 and
challenged McCarthyism, racism, war and government deceit.
The End of Ice is one of Smithsonian Magazine’s 10 Best Science Books of 2019, and was a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2020.
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