Dahr Jamail
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness
and Finding Meaning in the
Path of Climate Disruption
New Press
In this lyrical, finely observed portrait
of Earth’s changing environments, award-
winning war correspondent Dahr Jamail
sets out to detail the urgency of the plan-
etary crisis, dovetailing scientific informa-
tion with firsthand accounts of the lives of
those living on the front lines of climate
change, from Aleutian fishermen in the
Arctic to the indigenous nations of the
Amazonian rain forest. This is an intimate,
poignant depiction of the interconnections
between human cultures, terrain, and cli-
mate and how deeply we are shaped by our
physical world.
RESPONSES TO CLIMATE
CHANGE: ARTISTS, ENGINEERS,
INNOVATORS, AND MORE
Lucy R. Lippard
Weather Report:
Art and Climate Change
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
Over a decade ago, leading Land artist
Lucy Lippard was invited to curate an
ambitious exhibition of artistic responses
to climate change for the Boulder Museum
of Contemporary Art in Colorado. This
companion catalog illustrates the intrigu-
ing range of tactics and strategies used by
the fifty-one featured international artists
and makers who not only engaged with
the aesthetics of climate change but also
used their work to foreground how inter-
generational equity and social justice could
be impacted by changing environmental
conditions. Poring over the striking photo-
graphs and accompanying artist statements,
we develop a sense of how artists and mak-
ers can disrupt mainstream patterns of
thinking and open up crucial platforms for
interdisciplinary
discussion. This
seminal book cap-
tures a sense of the
ground-breaking
techniques art-
ists from North
America, Europe,
and the Middle
East were begin-
ning to use in the
early part of this
century to ques-
tion environmen-
tal complacency,
techniques that are still as effective and as
urgently needed today.Amitav Ghosh
The Great Derangement:
Climate Change and the
Unthinkable
University of Chicago PressWhat is the responsibility of the writer with
regard to climate change? In this searing
Asia-centric discourse on the interconnec-
tions between literature, empire, and capi-
talism, Ghosh casts a spotlight on the role
of human imagination and literature in pre-
cipitating the climate crisis and determining
our continued lack of engagement. Critiqu-
ing the largely Eurocentric discussion of the
Anthropocene, Ghosh unearths the diverse
technological interconnections between
East and West that have taken place across
history and explores the resulting struggle
for dominance between conflicting moraland political models of the environment as
played out in the theater of world literature.Clive Hamilton
Earthmasters: The Dawn of the
Age of Climate EngineeringYale University PressEarthmasters is a lucid analysis of the pro-
found economic and ethical issues sur-
rounding climate engineering (deliberate
large-scale interventions in the earth’s cli-
mate system) including such methods as
spraying aerosol sulphates into the atmo-
sphere, modifying the global cloud system,
and pumping extensive quantities of alkali
into coastal waters. Hamilton, a professor of
public ethics, examines the corporate inter-
ests supporting many geo-engineering tech-
nologies, assesses the shortfall in rigorous
testing of such innovations, and evaluates
the failure to consider issues of sustain-
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