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Author: Roy Scranton

📘 Learning to die in the Anthropocene by Roy Scranton

In *Learning to Die in the Anthropocene*, war veteran and journalist Roy Scranton charts the shift from battlefield to climate battlefield, drawing on his Iraq experiences to illuminate modern environmental catastrophe. Combining memoir, reportage, philosophy, and Zen wisdom, he explores how rising seas, extreme weather, and global warming threaten infrastructure, food, and human identity. Scranton argues that to survive, humanity must confront its mortality not as individuals but as a civilization, weaving insights from street protests, UN summits, earth science, and ancient literature into a call for a new, humane vision of the future. The book blends personal narrative with rigorous science, offering a concise, elegant, and hopeful perspective on climate change mitigation.

First publish date: 2015

Genre: Speculative Fiction/Social Speculation

Authors: Roy Scranton

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