| THE END OF ICE Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption Dahr Jamail New York: The New Press, January 2019 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-62097-234-2 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-62097-234-4 | 257pp. | HC/BWI | $25.99 | |
| Page 33: | "There is a classic traverse that is popular with climbers in the region, enough so that the Mountaineering Club of Alaska has built three huts along the edge of the glacier for its members. These huts serve as a marker for where the ice used to be. 'Now you get to the edge of the glacier,' Loso said, 'and the hut is way up the mountainside, hundreds of feet above you." |
| Since the glacier must be retreating up the mountainside, I think the huts would be below the edge. |
| Page 46: | "Glacier mass loss has past the point of no return and we cannot prevent the continued melting of the world's glaciers this century, even if we were to stop all emissions right this moment." |
| Word choice: S/B "passed". |
| Page 80: | "The same paper showed that oceanic warming is occurring 13 percent faster than previously believed and that is only accelerating." |
| Missing word: S/B "and that it is only". |
| Page 87: | "We will have lower diversity. There will be certain hearty things that will do really well." |
| Word choice: S/B "hardy". |
| Page 183: | "On another part of the beach, I can see the tops of large metal tanks, rusting and laying side by side in a row, a remnant of past efforts to keep the sea away." |
| Word choice: S/B "lying". |
| Pages 201-205: | The sections beginning "Two days after leaving Utqiagvik... and "The clouds lie low on my last full day in Utqiagvik..." seem to be transposed. |
| I think the one beginning "Two days after leaving Utqiagvik..." should come last. |
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