City Lights Publishers Releases LEARNING TO DIE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

By: BWW News Desk Oct. 19, 2015

In this bracing, visionary response to the urgent challenges of climate change, Roy Scranton takes readers on a journey through street protests, the latest findings of earth scientists, a historic UN summit, millennia of geological history, and the persistent vitality of ancient literature. Expanding on his influential New York Times essay (the #1 most-emailed article the day it appeared, and selected for Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014), Scranton responds to the existential problem of global warming by arguing that in order to survive, we must come to terms with our mortality.

Praise for Learning to Die in the Anthropocene:

"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

"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

A war veteran, journalist, author, and Princeton PhD candidate, Roy Scranton has been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Boston Review, and Theory and Event,and has been interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air, among other media.

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ISBN 9780872866690

$13.95 ·Trade Paperback Original
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