"So many of these things will recover, " he says of the glaciers and forests that are vanishing before our eyes. "But not in a time frame that includes humans."
Finally, a book about climate disruption that tells the whole truth and does not try to soften the blow with optimism. Jamail travels to six ...more
This is a highly readable, chilling (no pun intended) eye-opening book. Everyone should read this, especially those that refuse to believe that climate change is real. How can anyone deny global warming when faced with a line such as this? "A child born today will see an Everest largely free of glac ...more
Probably one of the least enjoyable books that people probably still should read. Dahr Jamail is a former Iraq War correspondent who returned to the United States and became a climate reporter. This book is a set of dispatches from the frontlines of climate change, or climate disruption as he calls ...more
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I'm not going to say I enjoyed reading this book, because the information it shares is just so devastating to our planet. But I did think the author did a really good job talking about how climate change, human interaction with the pl ...more
If you stopped all human activity today, “it would take another 25,000 years for what is currently in the atmosphere to be absorbed into the oceans.” Picture it this way: “130 feet of sea level rise that is already baked into Earth’s climate system.” In New York City, Wanless’s projections show it e ...more
The dedication of this book reads, “This book is dedicated to the future generations of all species. know that there were many of us who did what we could.”
I found this book very fitting to read after The Unihabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells because after knowledge ...more
Impossible to read this and not be moved--to tears, to longing, to action.
Jamail's best journalism involves his investigations while being embedded in the field. In his first book, Beyond the Green Zone, he worked as an embedded war journalist in the Iraq-American War--embedded with the Iraqis, that ...more
Though a difficult read (due to the depressing nature of the content), this book proved to feel more like therapy to me. Faced with not just harrowing statistics, but specific and intimate descriptions from senior scientists of what exactly climate change currently looks like and will look like in m ...more
This book by a journalist who has worked in Iraq and has deep longing and concern for our nature. Book is enjoyable, pierecing, accurate, detailed and contemporary. Author covers all facets of our ecology damaged by blind mindless pursuit of industrious human beings. . Deeply moving testimonials by re ...more
The Climate Crisis is alive and thriving, a persistent embarrassing bummer that refuses to be wished away. It is, by far, the biggest threat we’ve faced in the entire human saga. We are, by far, the most unusual animals in the world, and we’ve bumbled and stumbled into a “deer in the headlights” sit ...more
Devastating and essential, many of the scenes from the reporting in here will stick with me. There are plenty of good books about climate change, but it can be hard to capture the full scale of the topic or the right response to it, and Jamail does both. ...more