*[Enwl-eng] Book Club Online: The End of Ice

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                        In January 2022, World BEYOND War will be holding a 
weekly discussion each of four weeks of The End of Ice with the author Dahr 
Jamail as part of a small group WBW book club limited to a group of 18 
participants (it says 17 for online registration because 1 person has 
registered by check). We will send each participant a paperback copy of the 
book. We'll let you know which parts of the book will be discussed each week 
along with the Zoom details to access the discussions.

                        When: For one hour on four Wednesdays, January 5, 
12, 19, 26, 2022. The time is 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern, 2 a.m. Central 
European, and so forth (noon the next day in Sydney, 2 p.m. in Aukland):




                        Where: Zoom (details to be shared upon registration)

                        This is a small group series with limited space of 
up to 18 people. Sign up to reserve your spot and allow for enough time to 
receive the book. We look forward to reading and discussing this important 
book with you! Click here to learn more and register.

                        About the Book: 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—including photographs throughout of Jamail on his 
journey across the world—of the catastrophic reality of our situation and 
the incalculable necessity of relishing this vulnerable, fragile planet 
while we still can.

                        Jamail is currently helping create a full-length 
documentary with Abby Martin called The Earth's Greatest Enemy, about the 
role of militarism in climate destruction.

                        LEARN MORE AND SAVE YOUR SPOT. We always have 
requests to join these book clubs after they sell out.




                        About the Author: In late 2003, weary of the overall 
failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in 
Iraq for the Iraqi people, Dahr Jamail went to the Middle East to report on 
the war himself, where he has spent more than one year in Iraq as one of 
only a few independent US journalists in the country. Dahr has also reported 
from Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. He has also reported extensively on 
veterans’ resistance against US foreign policy, and is now focussing on 
anthropogenic climate disruption and the environment.

                        Dahr’s stories have been published with Truthout, 
Inter Press Service, Tom Dispatch, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, The 
Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, The 
Huffington Post, The Nation, The Independent, Al Jazeera, and The New York 
Times, among others. Dahr is currently and has been a feature writer for 
Truthout.org for five years, and his climate feature page there is titled 
‘Climate Disruption Dispatches‘.

                        His writing has been translated into French, Polish, 
German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic and Turkish. 
On radio as well as television, Dahr has reported for Democracy Now! and 
Al-Jazeera, and has appeared on the BBC, NPR, and numerous other stations 
around the globe.

                        Dahr’s reporting has earned him numerous awards, 
including the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism, The Lannan 
Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, the James Aronson Award for Social 
Justice Journalism, the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage, and five 
Project Censored awards.

                        Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Izzy Award, 
in 2018 the Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College 
awarded Dahr an Izzy for his “path-breaking and in-depth reporting in 2017” 
exposing “environmental hazards and militarism.” The Izzy Award, presented 
for outstanding achievement in independent media, is named in memory of I.F. 
“Izzy” Stone, the dissident journalist who launched I.F. Stone’s Weekly in 
1953 and challenged McCarthyism, racism, war and government deceit.

                        The End of Ice is one of Smithsonian Magazine’s 10 
Best Science Books of 2019, and was a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson 
Literary Science Writing Award in 2020.

                        Facebook Event to Promote This:
                        https://www.facebook.com/events/1002560030294265

                        REGISTER HERE.


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