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Learning to Die in the Anthropocene

Roy Scranton’s NY Times Op-Ed stands as a scathing indictment of all those pursuing climate change adaptation. Scranton argues that our civilization is already dead, we must accept that and build a new world. Adaptationists work to build a more-of-the-same world, just with sea walls and water-proof cellars.

But of course, even if it is […]

November 13th, 2013 | Category: anthropocene, Essays, History, Humanities and Climate Change | Leave a comment

Toward a History of the Future

The goal is to produce an awareness of the struggles over averting worst-case outcomes of the environmental crisis. These struggles for a green future are humanity on the cusp, trying to turn at a clear historical turning point.

Historians know of failed turning points. The European revolutions of 1848, for example. The Russian Revolution of […]

August 24th, 2013 | Category: Climate Campaigning, History, Policy Platforms, Science, Theory | Leave a comment