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100 1  Scranton, Roy,|d1976-|eauthor. 
245 10 Learning to die in the Anthropocene :|breflections on the 
       end of a civilization /|cRoy Scranton. 
264  1 San Franciso, CA :|bCity Lights Books,|c[2015] 
264  4 |c©2015 
300    1 online resource (142 pages) 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
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504    Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0  Human ecologies -- A wicked problem -- Carbon politics -- 
       The compulsion of strife -- A new enlightenment. 
520    "In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton 
       draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim 
       realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and 
       provocative book."--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-
       winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural 
       History "Roy Scranton's Learning to Die in the 
       Anthropocene presents, without extraneous bullshit, what 
       we must do to survive on Earth. It's a powerful, useful, 
       and ultimately hopeful book that more than any other I've 
       read has the ability to change people's minds and create 
       change. For me, it crystallizes and expresses what I've 
       been thinking about and trying to get a grasp on. The 
       economical way it does so, with such clarity, sets the 
       book apart from most others on the subject."--Jeff 
       VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach trilogy "Roy 
       Scranton lucidly articulates the depth of the climate 
       crisis with an honesty that is all too rare, then calls 
       for a reimagined humanism that will help us meet our 
       stormy future with as much decency as we can muster. While
       I don't share his conclusions about the potential for 
       social movements to drive ambitious mitigation, this is a 
       wise and important challenge from an elegant writer and 
       original thinker. A critical intervention."--Naomi Klein, 
       author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the 
       Climate "Concise, elegant, erudite, heartfelt & wise."--
       Amitav Ghosh, author of Flood of Fire "War veteran and 
       journalist Roy Scranton combines memoir, philosophy, and 
       science writing to craft one of the definitive documents 
       of the modern era."--The Believer Best Books of 2015 
       Coming home from the war in Iraq, US Army private Roy 
       Scranton thought he'd left the world of strife behind. 
       Then he watched as new calamities struck America, 
       heralding a threat far more dangerous than ISIS or Al 
       Qaeda: Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, megadrought--
       the shock and awe of global warming. Our world is 
       changing. Rising seas, spiking temperatures, and extreme 
       weather imperil global infrastructure, crops, and water 
       supplies. Conflict, famine, plagues, and riots menace from
       every quarter. From war-stricken Baghdad to the melting 
       Arctic, human-caused climate change poses a danger not 
       only to political and economic stability, but to 
       civilization itself ... and to what it means to be human. 
       Our greatest enemy, it turns out, is ourselves. The warmer,
       wetter, more chaotic world we now live in--the 
       Anthropocene--demands a radical new vision of human life. 
       In this bracing response to climate change, Roy Scranton 
       combines memoir, reportage, philosophy, and Zen wisdom to 
       explore what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving 
       world, taking readers on a journey through street protests,
       the latest findings of earth scientists, a historic UN 
       summit, millennia of geological history, and the 
       persistent vitality of ancient literature. Expanding on 
       his influential New York Times essay (the #1 most-emailed 
       article the day it appeared, and selected for Best 
       American Science and Nature Writing 2014), Scranton 
       responds to the existential problem of global warming by 
       arguing that in order to survive, we must come to terms 
       with our mortality. Plato argued that to philosophize is 
       to learn to die. If that's true, says Scranton, then we 
       have entered humanity's most philosophical age--for this 
       is precisely the problem of the Anthropocene. The trouble 
       now is that we must learn to die not as individuals, but 
       as a civilization. Roy Scranton has published in the New 
       York Times, Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Boston 
       Review, and Theory and Event, and has been interviewed on 
       NPR's Fresh Air, among other media. 
588 0  Print version record. 
650  0 Global warming. 
650  0 Climatic changes. 
650  0 Environmental degradation. 
650  0 Nature|xEffect of human beings on. 
650  0 Climate change mitigation. 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE|xGeneral.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Climate change mitigation.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01749583 
650  7 Climatic changes.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00864229 
650  7 Environmental degradation.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00912877 
650  7 Global warming.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00943506 
650  7 Nature|xEffect of human beings on.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01034564 
650  7 Global uppvärmning.|2sao 
650  7 Miljöförstöring.|2sao 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aScranton, Roy, 1976-|tLearning to die in
       the Anthropocene.|dSan Franciso, CA : City Lights Books, 
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