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Roy Scranton: Learning to die in the Anthropocene : reflections on the end of a civilization (2015, City Lights Books)

Coming home from the war in Iraq, US Army private Roy Scranton thought he'd left …

We still need to learn how to die in the Anthropocene I guess

Not so sure about this one. I fail to imagine how it would have been to read this when it was first published in 2015. Now, ten years later, some of it felt quite prophetic, but other parts rather shallow and some of it just proved to be wrong and is outdated now. The challenge to learn how to die, not as individuals but as a civilization, is on point, though. But the language of the book mystified this endeavour for me more than being able to clarify the path.