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Air date:
Fri, 12/18/2015 - 11:00am to 11:40am
Author Roy Scranton discusses his book "Learning to Die in the Anthropocene"
THIS PROGRAM WAS POSTPONED DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES.
Instead we heard "Portraits of Alzheimer's from the series Sprouts.
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Host Katheen Stephenson speaks with writer Roy Scranton about his book, "Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (City Lights 2015)."
"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
Coming home from the war in Iraq, US Army private Roy Scranton thought he'd left the world of strife behind. Then he watched as new calamities struck America, heralding a threat far more dangerous than ISIS or Al Qaeda: Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, megadrought—the shock and awe of global warming.
In this bracing response to climate change, Roy Scranton combines memoir, reportage, philosophy, and Zen wisdom to explore what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving world, taking 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.
Roy Scranton's writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Boston Review, Theory & Event, Contemporary Literature, and elsewhere. He is co-editor of FIRE AND FORGET: SHORT STORIES FROM THE LONG WAR (Da Capo, 2013). His New York Times essay "Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene" was picked for BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING 2014. His novel, WAR PORN, is forthcoming from Soho Press in 2016.
Instead we heard "Portraits of Alzheimer's from the series Sprouts.
http://pacificanetwork.org/sprouts-radio-from-the-grassroots/
Host Katheen Stephenson speaks with writer Roy Scranton about his book, "Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (City Lights 2015)."
"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
Coming home from the war in Iraq, US Army private Roy Scranton thought he'd left the world of strife behind. Then he watched as new calamities struck America, heralding a threat far more dangerous than ISIS or Al Qaeda: Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, megadrought—the shock and awe of global warming.
In this bracing response to climate change, Roy Scranton combines memoir, reportage, philosophy, and Zen wisdom to explore what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving world, taking 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.
Roy Scranton's writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Boston Review, Theory & Event, Contemporary Literature, and elsewhere. He is co-editor of FIRE AND FORGET: SHORT STORIES FROM THE LONG WAR (Da Capo, 2013). His New York Times essay "Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene" was picked for BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING 2014. His novel, WAR PORN, is forthcoming from Soho Press in 2016.
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