War veteran, journalist, author and Princeton Ph.D. candidate Roy Scranton writes of the dangers of climate change and of a warmer, wetter and more chaotic world which demands a radical new vision of human life. His book, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of Civilization (City Lights) expands upon a New York Times essay in which he argues that in order to survive, we must come to terms with our own mortality. “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. “Roy Scranton lucidly articulates the depth of the climate crisis with an honesty that is all too rare, then calls for a reimagined humanism that will help us meet our stormy future with as much decency as we can muster.”-Naomi Klein.