Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization [Paperback]

InLearning 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 ofThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Roy Scranton'sLearning to Die in the Anthropocenepresents, 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 theSouthern Reachtrilogy

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 ofThis Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

Concise, elegant, erudite, heartfelt & wise. --Amitav Ghosh, author ofFlood 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 BelieverBest 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 glolS_