Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
Reflections on the End of a Civilization
2015·144 pages·Nonfiction
“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
“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
“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
“Concise, elegant, erudite, heartfelt & wise.”
— Amitav Ghosh , author of Flood of Fire
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