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Praise for The End of Ice:A Publishers Weekly “Top 10 Science Picks” for Fall 2018“The End of Ice is about developing a stronger connection to nature, which Jamail says many people living in urban areas have lost or left behind.” —Smithsonian.com“Jamail commits to educating others on the plight of the planet, in hopes a younger generation can delay the inevitable.” —Men’s Journal“Enlightening, heartbreaking, and necessary.” —Booklist“This book will help readers understand how ecosystems have been affected by climate change and how inaction has potentially doomed further generations.” —Library Journal“Assiduously researched, profoundly affecting, and filled with vivid evocations of the natural world. Jamail's deep love of nature blazes through his crisp, elegant prose, and he ably illuminates less-discussed aspects of climate disruption. . . . A passionate, emotional ode to the wonders of our dying planet and to those who, hopelessly or not, dedicate their lives to trying to save it.” —Kirkus Reviews“In a sane world The End of Ice would be the end of lame excuses that climate change is too abstract to get worked up about. From the Arctic to the Amazon, from doomed Miami to the Great Barrier Reef, Dahr Jamail brings every frontier in our ongoing calamity into close focus. The losses are tangible. And so is the grief. This is more than a good book. It is a wise one.” —William deBuys, author of A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest and The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth’s Rarest Creatures “What a strange and compelling paradox this book offers: to fall in love with the Earth and all that we are losing, to let our hearts open to the deepest grief, and then trust that our grieving opens us to profound love. When what we love is lost, our grief honors the loss and cracks open our hearts to live fully in the present moment, which is joyous. Thank you, Dahr Jamail, for this gift.” —Margaret Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science and Who Do We Choose to Be? Praise for Dahr Jamail:“A superb journalist, in the most honorable tradition of that craft.” —Howard Zinn

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About the Author

Dahr Jamail, a Truthout staff reporter, is the author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. Jamail has reported from the Middle East over the last ten years, and he has won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. He lives in Washington State.

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Product details

Hardcover: 272 pages

Publisher: The New Press (January 15, 2019)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1620972344

ISBN-13: 978-1620972342

Product Dimensions:

6 x 0.8 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.7 out of 5 stars

21 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#14,412 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

We are in the midst of the most important predicament in the history of mankind, and there are few who are chronicling it as well as Mr. Jamail. If you want to know the latest on the science of climate disruption, there are many qualified sources. If you want to know what the changes feel like, and how they are manifesting themselves, you only have a very few choices, Mr. Jamail being far and away the best of them.Anthropomorphic climate disruption has already displaced tens of thousands of people all over the world, including thousands of Americans in Louisiana, California, the Carolinas, and Texas. Still there are those who would deny that anything out of the ordinary is happening, although recent events are making denial harder then ever. I have followed Mr. Jamail’s work for years, and anxiously awaited this volume. It doesn’t disappoint.We are losing our world, but as “End of Ice” makes clear, it isn’t all about us. Unfortunately, we’re taking millions of species along with us. Estimates on how much longer we might survive vary from only a few years to several decades, but it looks as though the endgame is already baked into the climate systems. This was a hard book to read, from the standpoint of the emotions it awakens. At times I found myself only able to read a few pages at a time before having to set it down for a while. The writing is quite compelling, invoking powerful images of various climate catastrophes-in-motion.“End of Ice” doesn’t overtly try to convince anyone of anything, instead it’s an engaging “war journal,” who’s only purpose is to enlighten. I would recommend the work most highly to anyone searching for an expert journalists account of where we stand, and what’s happening currently with the climate on our only planet.

Proclaiming that the end is nigh has now become the labor of the very opposite of a deluded religious devotee. And the question framed by Robert Frost of whether the world will end in fire or ice is no longer in dispute. The world will soon end in fire, possibly the fire of the Pentagon’s “usable” nuclear weapons, certainly the fire of anthropogenic climate collapse. Not only will the world not end in ice, but the vanishing of ice from the earth is helping to rapidly render this planet uninhabitable for humans and many other species.As we observe up-close in Dahr Jamail’s new book The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption, great masses of ice are melting away. Glacier National Park will soon lack any glaciers. Greenland, that ice-covered land falsely labeled green and distorted by northern prejudice to appear larger than Africa on most western maps, is being transformed into something you can spray through a hose . . . or drown in. Ice that most of us have never seen, but upon which our lives depend, is disappearing, not just quickly, but at a rate that is constantly becoming quicker, and even quicker, and quicker still.The permafrost in the Arctic, Jamail tells us, is thawing and releasing methane, and could at any moment release methane equivalent to several times the total carbon dioxide released by humans ever. Barring that catastrophe, the feedback loops or vicious cycles are real and underestimated. When the glaciers melt, the streams warm up or dry up, ecosystems collapse, forests burn, and the glaciers melt more. By 2015, forests in California had become climate polluters rather than CO2 reducers. Jamail finds that every single worst case scenario predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) regarding temperature, sea level, severe weather, and CO2 in the atmosphere has fallen short. In fact, Jamail explains why the IPCC is generally not just excessively conservative but 10 years out of date. That figure places the IPCC’s late-2018 report claiming that humanity had 12 years left in which to change its ways and avert disaster in a harsh light.While that IPCC report came out after Jamail wrote The End of Ice, it can add little perspective to a book that looks at our state of affairs far more clearly. Yet the fact that I am writing this review months before the book and this review will be published strikes me as somewhat obscene. What’s a quarter of a year, anyway, to wait to publish a silly book review? Well it’s an eighth of the 2 years one might conclude we have left to work with. But that would be clinging to fantasy. There is no preventing utter disaster. Yet there is urgency. The need is to work to slow the collapse and to mitigate its impacts and provide aid to each other as it washes over us.The End of Ice takes us on a tour of magnificent and critically wounded areas of the earth, beginning in Alaska on Denali, which is changing — melting — dramatically. In many of the locations that Jamail takes us to, people have observed the warming for decades. Many people in the “developed” world, Jamail suggests, have not been connected enough to a place to notice — at least until now, when it is too late.As Jamail travels the planet, he meets with top scientists, local officials, and other observers of what’s happening. One makes the point about Alaska being out-of-sight and out-of mind: “If this was happening in California, every one of these changes would be front-page news. That is why you’ve had no idea that Alaska’s glaciers are losing an estimated 75 billion tons of ice every year.”Of course, that’s a very partial explanation of denialism, which has, by definition, consisted of denying something, not of being unaware of it. The news has been unwanted, especially by those paid not to want it. While Sarah Palin could see Russia from Alaska, there was no evidence that she saw Alaska from Alaska. In South Florida, which is doomed to go underwater, insurance rates are skyrocketing, the lengths of mortgages are shrinking, and construction — including of nuclear reactors — is booming. A grave for humanity might bear the word “Ignorance” or it might, just as appropriately, display an image of Ronald Reagan ripping solar panels off the White House roof.Those living in some fortunate untouched inland suburb will not have the benefit of a lengthy warning in the form of direct impact. They can only warn themselves by caring what’s happening in other places ravaged by drought and flooding and storms and heat. Rather than sitting in the mythical warming pot alongside the poor slandered frog who actually knows better, people are on the comfortable stovetop next to the pot, about to be engulfed as the pot boils over.Jamail finds his visits to natural wonders bittersweet and takes extra pleasure in spending time with doomed places. But I don’t think he intends to encourage morbid tourism. When he visits the Matanuska Glacier, he finds privatized profiteering from visits to the glacier’s receding edge. As the glacier melts, chainsaws take down trees, construction noise echoes, and ATVs buzz about — knowingly turning up the heat that such last-chance tourism industries fully feel.Millions of humans depend on glaciers for drinking water. The countries where over half of humanity lives are over-pumping their aquifers. The rising sea levels accelerated by the melting ice will render a significant portion of humanity homeless. I fear that, beyond the physical feedback loops that scientists tell Jamail about, human feedback loops could worsen the coming crises. If people respond with greed, fear, bigotry, corruption, and violence, they will make matters far worse immediately, and by further fueling the climate collapse. Building walls to keep out refugees, and promoting the idea that climate disaster produces war (all by itself, without any human involvement, it would seem from many such predictions) is a recipe for catastrophe, possibly of the nuclear sort.What to do is not the focus of The End of Ice, but some ideas come through, beyond that of enjoying what time we have. First, I think, we must cease adding to the methane and CO2. As war is the biggest producer of C02 around, making plans to use war as a response to climate collapse is one of the dumber moves available. As the meat industry is one of the greatest producers of methane around, enjoying some delicious end-of-times cooked flesh is not the solution. We need a radical reworking of our culture into the sort of society that could have survived had it reformed itself 30 years sooner.Then we need to mitigate the damage, by helping those in need. We need to relocate people and other species out of areas that are going underwater, and not just people but the worst of their physical creations as measured by the degree to which they will poison the oceans if left behind. As long as there is some hope of reducing the speed or enormity of the damage, I will find an exclusive focus on mitigation to be an outrage. But even more outrageous is the fact that right now our society isn’t even trying to mitigate the damage.I’ve never shared the widespread interest in hope or despair. We have a moral responsibility to do what needs doing. What more has to be said? But the work of the doctor / narrator in Albert Camus’ The Plague, which I’ve referred people to as a model is not quite right — or at least could be misleading. The importance of preparing for the plague at the first signs of it must be increased dramatically. And one cannot simply plod along, working long hours, until the plague has run its course. This plague ends us before it runs its course. We have to dedicate ourselves to ending with dignity and kindness, with the closest thing we can manage to the grace and wisdom that could have saved us. And then we have to rededicate ourselves to redoubling our efforts, again and again, with ever greater effort as we continue. The alternative of giving up is guaranteed not to be more enjoyable than working well together on a crisis that could bring out the best in us. The alternative of pretending everything is normal, scorning radical activism, and contenting ourselves with voting in yet another “most important election of our lifetime” every two years is guaranteed to create a crisis of faith and a crisis of guilt. Let’s not go there. Or rather, let’s not stay there.

I can not say that I enjoyed reading this book due to the gravity of the subject, which really is about the fate of our world. Having said that, I believe that everyone should be induced somehow to read it thru and give it a good discussion. This should be required reading for all influential people. Mr. Jamail even mentioned that he, "was preaching to the choir" in large portions of this book. I know that I am a lifelong member of that choir, especially after visiting Pt. Barrow back in 1975 and the Mendenhall Glacier outside of Juneau, Alaska. Went back to see the Mendenhall in 1999 only to see that it had retreated nearly one mile upslope!. I have also been fortunate enough to travel down to the Antarctica several time starting in 1974 (US Coast Guard icebreaker) to see the wonderous beauty. Palmer station on the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula was covered in snow and ice back then, now I understand that they can have vegetation growing where the Penguin rookeries used to be (the Penguins are dying off you see due to food disruption). It seems that experiencing climate change for oneself makes you an easy convert to its reality. Trouble is that most people don't go out into the world to experience these conditions for themselves. What can we do about that? One good place to start would be to read this book. And how about getting really out there to experience natures decline for yourselves?

Must read for anyone seriously concerned about climate disruption.

The End of Ice is an honest, yet heart-centered look at anthropogenic climate disruption—the brutal reality we have created for ourselves and all other life on this beautiful planet. It is an invitation to love, to grieve, and to step into Presence. This is the book we need right now.

Thank you, Mr. Jamail, for this book. It is not easy, over and over again, researching and watching the ongoing destruction of these beautiful ecosystems. It is important work albeit painful.

Very informative and scarey. It really brings home the fact we are only taking baby steps to deal with the enormous problem of climate change.

current, informational, well written, I couldn't put it down.

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