All tagged Dahr Jamail

Rumination On Truth: The Destruction Of Iraq, Twenty Years On / Dahr Jamail

Rumination On Truth: The Destruction Of Iraq, Twenty Years On / Dahr Jamail

Patrick Farnsworth
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Author and former climate journalist Dahr Jamail returns to the podcast to discuss the 20th anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq by United States-led coalition forces. Jamail began his journalistic career as an unembedded journalist documenting the war from the ground beginning in 2003, highlighting the countless war crimes committed by the occupying forces against the civilians of Iraq, superbly documented in his first book on the subject, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq published in 2007 by Haymarket Books. 

300 / Part Seven: Transitions, Death, The Ruptures Of Life In Between

300 / Part Seven: Transitions, Death, The Ruptures Of Life In Between

Patrick Farnsworth
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We are meeting a time of many endings. The overly-complex systems that govern modern human life are meeting their inevitable demise. Centuries of human industrial activity has thrown the living systems of the Earth into disarray, and mass extinction ensues. The global climate is beyond repair, with enough heat baked into the system to guarantee several degrees of warming over the next several decades and centuries—a fact that cannot be contested. The question of human extinction is less a matter of "if" but more a matter of "when." If what is happening is happening, how, then, shall we live? 

Today Is Better Than Tomorrow: A Time Of Endings; Shades Of Denial / Dahr Jamail

Today Is Better Than Tomorrow: A Time Of Endings; Shades Of Denial / Dahr Jamail

Patrick Farnsworth
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In this episode, I speak with award-winning journalist and author Dahr Jamail. 

I can imagine most of you listening to this episode will recognize what Dahr and I both feel and know in this time we are in. Many of us are beginning to come to terms with the reality we have been dealt — a global predicament that includes a pandemic that won’t soon leave us, economic crisis and social unrest that will only worsen as the months pass on, and nonlinear climate disruption that continues to rear its ugly head, portending horrors that are only beginning to make themselves a reality. And we know, from these trends, this breakdown will only accelerate as the months and years pass. As Dahr states, citing his time in Iraq, “today is better than tomorrow.”

205 / Climate Apartheid: We Will All Be Climate Refugees, Eventually / Dahr Jamail

205 / Climate Apartheid: We Will All Be Climate Refugees, Eventually / Dahr Jamail

Patrick Farnsworth
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In my fourth interview with Truthout staff reporter, climate journalist, and author Dahr Jamail, we discuss some of the most dramatic and recent examples of abrupt climate disruption in recent months, how these accelerating changes are manifesting across human communities and political institutions across the planet, and how these changes are forever altering the natural world as a whole through widespread species displacement, loss, and extinction.

171 / The End Of Ice: Bearing Witness In The Path Of Climate Disruption / Dahr Jamail

171 / The End Of Ice: Bearing Witness In The Path Of Climate Disruption / Dahr Jamail

Patrick Farnsworth
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In this joint interview with [RS], we speak with Dahr Jamail — investigative journalist and the author of The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption. After meeting Dahr for his book release at Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Oregon, [RS] and I sat down with Dahr to discuss his journey writing this book. “[Dahr] embarks on a journey to the geographical front lines of [climate disruption] —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.”

154 / Another End Of The World Is Possible / Dahr Jamail

154 / Another End Of The World Is Possible / Dahr Jamail

Patrick Farnsworth
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In this discussion with award-winning environmental journalist Dahr Jamail, we begin by addressing the recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). I ask Dahr unpack the data and projections regarding anthropogenic climate change presented in the report, with Dahr noting that the report excludes much of the more recent and varied data regarding the non-linear, exponential change inherent in abrupt climate disruption as a result of human industrial activity over the past several centuries. The direct implication inherent in the information Dahr presents in his work regarding the global climate crisis points to the very likely inability for the human species to adapt to the rapid change relating to abrupt climate disruption, in great part due to the growing inability to grow food at scale, wide-spread conflict and resource depletion, catastrophic weather change and dramatic sea-level rise inundating coastal cities, as well as other wide-spread changes relating to abrupt climate disruption.

103 / Death Spiral: Grappling With The Implications Of Global Climate Disruption / Dahr Jamail

Patrick Farnsworth
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In this episode, Dahr Jamail lays out the details of the current state of the global climate system and the massive catastrophic changes currently underway in our oceans, as well as the ongoing disappearance of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, the receding land ice on Greenland, and what this means for sea level rise in the upcoming decades. We discuss the implications of these very rapid shifts in our global climate system and what this means for the future of our species, and all life on this planet.