The End of Ice

Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption

By: Dahr Jamail

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

Dealing with the Ultimate Climate Change Question

Several years ago Dahr began issuing a monthly newsletter highlighting recent reports and research that showed the effects of climate change. The reports continually became more dire. Now, in this book, Dahr takes us to some of the places most disrupted by this change. And, as always, his reports ring of reality and truth as he describes the surroundings and interviews the scientists who are recording and researching the changes. This makes this book an important contribution to climate change literature.

But, the book goes beyond just reporting what is happening. Two recent reports – one by the UN, one by the Trump Administration – conclude that we have 12 years, possibly fewer, to get greenhouse emissions under control. If we don’t the future looks very bleak. After examining the recent research and the current political situation Dahr realistically decides that our chances of preserving a livable climate is almost nil. So how do we deal with the probability that our we, our children and grandchildren will live in a world far less hospitable to our species? Dahr considers the situation and offers an answer. This is what makes this book so important.

Bit of a mismatch

This book is really compelling. I really appreciated all the fully supported scientific details alongside the insight of a mountaineer, someone who clearIy knows Denali firsthand. So I found the conclusion a bit of a mismatch - What was his final point ? If things are as bad as you lay out - say that....

Overview for beginners

This book is 5 years old so already outdated, but it offers a well-written overview with personal interest. Very little about what to do now, however.

Brace yourself…

This is totally devastating, and a welcome truth telling regarding climate disruption. “Life is chaos, be kind”-Oswalt

End of Ice - The beginning of the end of Life.

The author and orator of the End of Ice brings together all of the elements of a changing biosphere in a most unique way. He conveys to the listeners a life time of personal witness of the evidence of the changing climatic conditions that will impact the balance of all life on this planet. He also provides a unique way that allows the reader to cope with the knowledge of what is to come. End of Ice confirms my suspicions and observations. Thank you.