Learning To Die In The Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization, by Roy Scranton

This treatise on climate change argues that we should just accept that our civilization is going to die. We might survive however, by remembering our cultural heritage. We discuss Scranton's experience at war, as well as the variety of reactions to his claim that we should just confront our own mortality, even when we're posting to social media.

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• Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
• Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
• The Better Angels of Our Nature
• It's a Disaster
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
• Melancholia

Additional Resources:

• 28 Authors on the Books That Changed Their Lives
• Impurity: Two Books on the Anthropocene
• LEARNING TO DIE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: INTERVIEW WITH ROY SCRANTON
• Ison, Ray and Shelley, Monica. “Governing in the Anthropocene: Contributions from Systems Thinking in Practice?”
• Whitington, Jerome. “What Does Climate Change Demand of Anthropology?” Political and Legal Anthropology Review, May 2016.