Roy Scranton on Learning to Die in the Anthropocene

Writer, journalist, and Iraq war veteran Roy Scranton discusses the ideas behind his viral 2013 NY Times article entitled "Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene," which he later expanded into a book of the same name. Scranton argues that the main challenge facing humanity in an era of irreversible climate change is not one that science, engineering or policy can answer. Rather, its is a deeply philosophical conundrum – he says that in order to survive as a civilization, we first need to learn how to die.

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Roy Scranton on Learning to Die in the Anthropocene is an episode from Habitations by Habitations.

This episode is 00:40:34 long.

This episode was published on Nov 18, 2016.

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