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A review by not_mike
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization by Roy Scranton
5.0
Paperback.
"Wars begin and end. Empires rise and fall. Buildings collapse, books burn, servers break down, cities sink into the sea. Humanity can survive the demise of fossil-fuel civilization and it can survive whatever despotism or barbarism will arise in its ruins. We may even be able to survive in a green home world. Perhaps our descendants will build new cities on the shore of the Artic Sea, when the rest of the earth is scorching deserts and steaming jungles. if being human is to mean anything at all in the Anthropocene, if we are going to refuse to let ourselves sink into the futility of life without memory, then we must not lose our few thousand years of hard-won knowledge, accumulated at great cost and against great odds. We must not abandon the memory of the dead." (Pg. 109)
"Wars begin and end. Empires rise and fall. Buildings collapse, books burn, servers break down, cities sink into the sea. Humanity can survive the demise of fossil-fuel civilization and it can survive whatever despotism or barbarism will arise in its ruins. We may even be able to survive in a green home world. Perhaps our descendants will build new cities on the shore of the Artic Sea, when the rest of the earth is scorching deserts and steaming jungles. if being human is to mean anything at all in the Anthropocene, if we are going to refuse to let ourselves sink into the futility of life without memory, then we must not lose our few thousand years of hard-won knowledge, accumulated at great cost and against great odds. We must not abandon the memory of the dead." (Pg. 109)