DAHR JAMAIL
Wednesday, April 10th, 6:30pm
Yakima Central Library
When Dahr Jamail, a former war reporter, returned to the U.S. and decided to renew his passion for mountaineering, he found that the slopes he had once climbed had been irrevocably changed by climate disruption. In his book, The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption, Jamail embarks on a globetrotting journey to the geographical front lines of this crisis—trekking from Alaska to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, via the Amazon rain forest—in order to discover the consequences to nature, and to humans, of the loss of ice.
Along with climate scientists and inhabitants of the regions he visits, Jamail realizes that our planet, most likely, is in a hospice situation.The End of Ice features breathtaking photographs from Jamail’s journeys, his first-hand chronicle of witnessing Earth’s melting ice caps, and is imbued with a reverent appreciation for our fragile planet.
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