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Dahr Jamail

Dahr Jamail is the author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq as well as The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption and (with Stan Rushworth) We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth (both from The New Press). He has won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism and the Izzy Award. He lives in Washington State.

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We Are the Middle of Forever: Excerpt

By Kyle Powys Whyte, Stan Rushworth, Dahr Jamail, Resilience.org

Kinship is a certain type of relationship that we all have with each other. No matter what society you live in, there’s going to be some degree of kinship.

  • September 13, 2022
Melting-glacier

Scientists’ Advice to People Living in Coastal Areas? Move.

By Dahr Jamail, TruthOut

And you, dear reader, where is it you find your equanimity? Whether it is a place, a person, an activity, or a mental state, please remember to go there, regularly or as you are able, as the unraveling of Earth’s biosphere continues apace.

  • September 25, 2019
Amazon wildfires satellite imagery

The Amazon Is Dying and Bolsonaro Is Fanning the Flames

By Dahr Jamail, TruthOut

And now, the Amazon is on fire. Wildfires are incinerating the rainforest at a record pace, according to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE as it is commonly referenced). INPE recently stated that there has been an 80 percent increase in wildfires in the Amazon, compared to the same period from last year.

  • August 23, 2019

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."

  • July 22, 2019

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.

  • July 15, 2019
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