Roy Scranton (Author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene)

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Roy Scranton is the author of I 笙� Oklahoma! (Soho Press, 2019), Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2019), We窶决e Doomed. Now What? (Soho Press, 2018), War Porn (Soho Press, 2016), and Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (City Lights, 2015). He has written for the New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Nation, the New Republic, The Baffler, Yale Review, Emergence, Boston Review, and elsewhere, and he co-edited What Future: The Year窶冱 Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate & Reinvent Our Future (Unnamed Press, 2017) and Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War (Da Capo, 2013).

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	Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization 3.76 avg rating — 1,892 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War by Matt Gallagher (ﾅｷｱｦﾓ鯊ﾖ Author) (Editor), Roy Scranton (ﾅｷｱｦﾓ鯊ﾖ Author) (Editor), Colum McCann (ﾅｷｱｦﾓ鯊ﾖ Author) (Foreword) 3.94 avg rating — 542 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Likewise, civilizations have throughout history marched blindly toward disaster, because humans are wired to believe that tomorrow will be much like today 窶� it is unnatural for us to think that this way of life, this present moment, this order of things is not stable and permanent. Across the world today, our actions testify to our belief that we can go on like this forever, burning oil, poisoning the seas, killing off other species, pumping carbon into the air, ignoring the ominous silence of our coal mine canaries in favor of the unending robotic tweets of our new digital imaginarium. Yet the reality of global climate change is going to keep intruding on our fantasies of perpetual growth, permanent innovation and endless energy, just as the reality of mortality shocks our casual faith in permanence.”
― Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization

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“Carbon-fueled capitalism is a zombie system, voracious but sterile.”
― Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization

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“The coal miners struggling for a democratic stake in production didn窶冲 just protest, share news stories, and post messages. They didn窶冲 just march. The African-American activists struggling for civil rights didn窶冲 just tweet hashtag campaigns. They didn窶冲 just hold meetings. They fought and bled and died for a world they believed in, for a share in the power they produced. Coal”
― Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization

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