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Learning to die in the Anthropocene : reflections on the end of a civilization / Roy Scranton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scranton, Roy, 1976-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Global warming.
- Climatic changes.
- Environmental degradation.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Climate change mitigation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (142 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2015]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Coming home
- Human ecologies
- A wicked problem
- Carbon politics
- The compulsion of strife
- A new enlightenment
- Coda: Coming home.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-138).
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780872866706
- 087286670X
- Publisher Number:
- 99984002437
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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