The End of Ice

Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption

By: Dahr Jamail

Narrated by: Tom Parks

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 of the catastrophic reality of our situation and the incalculable necessity of relishing this vulnerable, fragile planet while we still can.

©2019 Dahr Jamail (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc. Published by arrangement with The New Press (www.thenewpress.com).

great great listen

I loved the way this information was presented and the thoughts it left me with.

Unbelievably frightening!

This book is real eye opener about “life” and how it is destroying the earth.

I do not claim to be knowledgeable about any of these topics, but in listening to this book I have become aware of what is happening.
I strongly recommend this book to young and old alike.

This book simply proves that many decisions in our lives may very well enhance our society and comfort. Unfortunately we can never know the negatives until too late.

Read this book, and simply pay attention to all of our wonderful things the earth has to offer and consider the results.

This is no ones fault that it happens, it is all of our faults that together we don’t look to correct it.
Mike

Excellent book about the sad state of the earth...

As we deal with climate disruption, it’s scary to listen to the truth. It is also full of wisdom.

Thank you for this book. I grieve for what we humans have done and continue to do to the earth.

Kudos

Thank you for doing your part. For having gone through what you have enabling you be the one to write this necessary book.

Beyond this, it is difficult to give echo to your work.

The Best Book

On climate crisis. An in depth analysis of facts. The best read on climate change for sure.