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Roy Scranton is assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of Civilization; We're Doomed. Now What? Essays on War and Climate Change; and two novels, War Porn and I Heart Oklahoma!
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Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (City Lights Open Media) (2015) 217 exemplaires
Homecoming 1 exemplaire
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I Heart Oklahoma! par Roy Scranton
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.I couldn't finish it. I had trouble listening to the narrator. It just was not for me. Uncomfortable to listen to and follow.
This is a short but factually dense book. Its conclusion is that even acting drastically and immediately, there will be only a small chance that humanity can survive the ravages of climate change. Even if some strands of humanity survive, our civilization will exist at a much reduced standard of living. Under no scenario is our current life style sustainable. This is a very depressing book.
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The first couple of chapters are a brilliant overview of the situation humanity finds itself in and how we got here, with hints toward What Is To Be Done (in a psychological, emotional sense, rather than in a pragmatic program). But after that great, essay-length start, the rest of this very short book is a gorgeously written but ultimately unsatisfying ramble through human history and philosophy in an unfulfilled attempt to suggest where humans should find and cultivate the meaning of life as our planetary environment changes dramatically around us.… (plus d'informations)
I'm very sympathetic to the case Scranton makes for detachment as a way of being in our unfolding climate crisis and the vital role of deep humanistic traditions if humanity is to survive. But his commitment to the direst possible reading of our current predicament does not seem necessary or necessarily helpful to advancing this case.
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