{"id":45945,"date":"2019-05-05T06:32:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T11:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45945"},"modified":"2019-05-05T06:42:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T11:42:48","slug":"a-war-reporter-covers-the-end-of-ice-and-it-will-change-the-way-you-think-about-climate-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45945","title":{"rendered":"A War Reporter Covers “The End of Ice”–And It Will Change the Way You Think About Climate Catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

<\/a><\/a><\/a>2<\/a>Photos: Getty Images Animation: The Intercept<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WAR REPORTER COVERS \u201cTHE END OF ICE\u201d \u2014 AND IT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT CLIMATE CATASTROPHE<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

FOCUSING ON BREATH and gratitude, Dahr Jamail\u2019s latest book, \u201cThe End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption,\u201d stitches together personal introspection and gut-wrenching interviews with leading climate experts. The rapidly receding glaciers of Denali National Park, home to the highest peak in North America, inspired the book\u2019s title. \u201cSeven years of climbing in Alaska had provided me with a front-row seat from where I could witness the dramatic impact of human-caused climate disruption,\u201d Jamail writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With vividly descriptive storytelling, Jamail pushes further north into the Arctic Circle where warming is occurring at double speed. He surveys rapid changes in the Pribilof Islands, where indigenous communities have had to contend with die-offs affecting seabirds, fur seals, fish, and more \u2014 a collapsing food web. The story continues in the fragile Great Barrier Reef, utterly ravaged by the warming ocean. South Florida is faring no better: Jamail finds that 2.46 million of the state\u2019s acreage will be submerged within his lifetime. Experts are aghast everywhere Jamail visits. In the Amazon, rich in biodiversity, the consequences are especially enormous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe End of Ice\u201d readers won\u2019t find calls for technology-based solutions, politicians, mitigating emissions, or the Green New Deal to save us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Describing the current state of the planet, Jamail likens it to someone in hospice care. The global mean temperature is already 1 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Not half a decade ago, leading climate scientist James Hansen\u00a0warned<\/a>\u00a0that that one degree would usher in a crisis of sea level rise, melting Arctic ice, and extreme weather. He concluded that the goal of limiting global warming to only 2 degrees was \u201cvery dangerous.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2Photos: Getty Images Animation: The Intercept A WAR REPORTER COVERS \u201cTHE END OF ICE\u201d \u2014 AND IT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT CLIMATE CATASTROPHE FOCUSING ON BREATH and gratitude, Dahr Jamail\u2019s latest book, \u201cThe End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption,\u201d stitches together personal introspection and gut-wrenching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22217,10759,25801,288,369,23450,6955,24094,5567],"class_list":["post-45945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-catastrophe","tag-climate-disruption","tag-elise-swain","tag-extreme-weather","tag-global-warming","tag-green-new-deal","tag-james-hansen","tag-the-end-of-ice","tag-the-intercept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45947,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45945\/revisions\/45947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}