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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