Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (Buch von 2015)

Verbindungen

• Roy Scranton verfasste ~

Angaben

Roy Scranton: Learning to Die in the Anthropocene. Reflections on the end of a civilization. City Lights Books, 2015.

Klappentext

Our world is changing. Rising seas, spiking temperatures, and extreme weather imperil global infrastructure, crops, and water supplies. Human-caused climate change poses a danger not only to political and economic stability, but to civilization itself. The chaotic world we now live in—the Anthropocene—demands a radical new vision of human life.

In this bracing, visionary response to the urgent challenges of climate change, Iraq war veteran Roy Scranton takes readers on a journey—through street protests, war zones, the latest findings of earth scientists, ancient literature and philosophy, and millennia of geological history. He confronts the critical question—right now, and for the future—of what it means to be human in our rapidly changing world.