num_pages: 264
description: 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 crisisfrom Alaska to Australias Great Barrier Reef via the Amazon rainforestin 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 Alaskas Denali the highest peak in North America dives in the warm crystal waters of the Coral Sea only to find bleached 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 collapsing food web.Accompanied along the way by climate scientists and people whose families for centuries have fished farmed and lived in the areas he visits 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 planets wild places cherishing Earth in a way he has never been able to before.The End of Ice offers an essential firsthand chronicle of the catastrophic reality of our situation and the incalculable necessity of relishing this vulnerable fragile planet while we still can.
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title: The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
publisher: The New Press