A war veteran, journalist, author, and Princeton PhD candidate, Roy Scranton has published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Boston Review, y Theory and Event, and has been interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air, among other media. Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (City Lights Publishers) combines memoir, reportage, philosophy, and Zen wisdom to explore what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving world. From war-stricken Baghdad to the melting Arctic, human-caused climate change poses a danger not only to political and economic stability, but to civilization itself . . . and to what it means to be human. Our greatest enemy, it turns out, is ourselves. The warmer, wetter, more chaotic world we now live in–the Anthropocene–demands a radical new vision of human life. Scranton responds to the existential problem of global warming by arguing that in order to survive, we must come to terms with our mortality.