Learning to die in the Anthropocene reflections on the end of a civilization

"Our world is changing. Rising seas, spiking temperatures, and extreme weather imperil global infrastructure, crops, and water supplies. Conflict, famine, plagues, and riots menace from every quarter. From war-stricken Baghdad to the melting Arctic, human-caused climate change poses a danger no...

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Main Author: Scranton, Roy, 1976-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Coming home
  • Human ecologies
  • A wicked problem
  • Carbon politics
  • The compulsion of strife
  • A new enlightenment
  • Coda: Coming home.