The End of Ice

Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption

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Pub Date 15 Jan 2019 | Archive Date 15 Jan 2019

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As seen in The New York Times, Men's Journal, Smithsonian.com, and The Guardian

The author who Jeremy Scahill calls the "quintessential unembedded reporter" visits "hot spots" around the world in a global quest to discover how we will cope with our planet's changing ecosystems

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.

As seen in The New York Times, Men's Journal, Smithsonian.com, and The Guardian

The author who Jeremy Scahill calls the "quintessential unembedded reporter" visits "hot spots" around the world in a...


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ISBN 9781620972342
PRICE $25.99 (USD)
PAGES 320

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Grab this as soon as it hits the street. Jamail, a seasoned journalist and mountaineer, stuns with "The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption." Weaving in riveting accounts of some of his top-of-the-world mountain adventures, he sets out to explore the spots on Earth where climate change can be seen to be happening. In Alaska and Montana, he sees firsthand how glaciers are retreating, and in Alaska's northernmost village, he learns how Arctic sea ice is vanishing "so fast, we're having trouble keeping up," in the words of one scientist. In the Bering Sea, he talks to people baffled at how fishing is threatened by fast-warming ocean waters. He checks out dying coral reefs in Palau and Guam, visits the sickly Great Barrier Reef. As have a number of writers, in Florida he is flabbergasted that property investors still thrive in Miami, already subject to regular flooding. He examines trees and the Amazonian rainforests. Throughout, he is evocative yet precisely factual; the effect is overwhelming. Throughout, a constant theme is the utter inability of dedicated scientists to understand how the human race ignores their messages. When I read this - "A child born today will see an Everest largely free of glaciers within her lifetime" - I was shattered. Jamail's final moving call to action cements "The End of Ice," in my view, as an essential modern overview of climate disruption.

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