Dahr Jamail, a Truthout staff reporter, is the author of The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption (The New Press, 2019), The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan (Haymarket Books, 2009), and Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq (Haymarket Books, 2007). Jamail reported from Iraq for more than a year, as well as from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Turkey over the last 10 years, and has won the Izzy Award and the Martha Gellhorn Award for Investigative Journalism, among other awards. His third book, The Mass Destruction of Iraq: Why It Is Happening, and Who Is Responsible, co-written with William Rivers Pitt, is available now on Amazon. He lives and works in Washington State.
Living in Two Worlds: Capitalism Pretends All Is Well While the World Is Burning
By Dahr Jamail, Barbara Cecil, TruthOut
Those of us who are lucky enough to be living somewhere in the world where there is enough food to eat, water to drink, and security for us and our loved ones, are living in a bubble.
On Listening to the Earth
By Dahr Jamail, Resilience.org
The story warns that by not listening to Mis Misa’s song, the song will fade. Mis Misa will depart, "and the Earth and all of the societies upon Earth will be out of balance, and the life therein vulnerable to extinction."
Dancing with Grief
By Dahr Jamail, Resilience.org
I've learned that I need to work on my own grief because it's the only way I can access the depths within myself that are requisite of these times. Only then am I able to be clear about what is most important, and what my next right step should be.
Arctic Is Thawing So Fast Scientists Are Losing Their Measuring Tools
By Dahr Jamail, TruthOut
We’ve never experienced anything like this: We are living with the full knowledge of our collapsing biosphere and watching huge portions of it vanishing before our very eyes.
What Would It Mean to Deeply Accept That We’re in Planetary Crisis?
By Dahr Jamail, Barbara Cecil, TruthOut
At this critical planetary moment, the two of us are each considering what it means to deeply accept that our planetary home is in crisis — and how to move forward. Here are some of our individual reflections.
Climate Crisis Forces Us to Ask: To What Do We Devote Ourselves?
By Dahr Jamail, TruthOut
Hence, when the grief and rage threaten to consume me, I now orient myself around the question, “What are my obligations?” In other words, “From this moment on, knowing what is happening to the planet, to what do I devote my life?“
Rethink Activism in the Face of Catastrophic Biological Collapse
By Dahr Jamail, Barbara Cecil, TruthOut
Here are a few stories about adaptation, to give a feel for actions that flow out of this type of hope — a hope that includes a hard-won acceptance of the very real possibility of impending collapse.
As the Climate Collapses, We Ask: “How Then Shall We Live?”
By Dahr Jamail, Barbara Cecil, TruthOut
There is much we simply don’t know about the continuity of life. Perhaps the wisdom we need most is already right before our eyes in the awesome wonder of the natural world, and all we need to do is open ourselves to it.