Roy Scranton: The "Ultimate Doomist" & The Existential Questions Of Climate Catastrophe
Last Born In The Wilderness
English - April 06, 2021 15:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 110 ratingsSociety & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This is a segment of episode 294 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Goodbye, 'Normal': The Existential Questions Of Climate Catastrophe w/ Roy Scranton.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWscranton
Read Roy’s New York Times op-ed ‘I’ve Said Goodbye to ‘Normal.’ You Should, Too.’: https://nyti.ms/39AFgJE
Roy Scranton, bestselling author of ‘We're Doomed. Now What?’ and ‘Learning to Die in the Anthropocene,’ joins me to discuss his recent op-ed in the New York Times, ‘I’ve Said Goodbye to ‘Normal.’ You Should, Too.’
In this segment of our discussion, I ask him to respond to scientist and author Michael Mann's characterization of Scranton and his work ("Scranton is the ultimate doomist" (https://bit.ly/3dwHRG1)), and whether this (mis)characterization actually aligns with what he is trying to accomplish with his work, exploring the existential questions that inevitably come up when one looks at what climate and environmental crises presents for the future.
Roy Scranton is the author of ‘I ♥ Oklahoma!’ (Soho Press, 2019), ‘Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature’ (University of Chicago Press, 2019), ‘We’re Doomed. Now What? ‘(Soho Press, 2018), ‘War Porn’ (Soho Press, 2016), and ‘Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization’ (City Lights, 2015). He has written for the New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Nation, the New Republic, The Baffler, Yale Review, Emergence, Boston Review, and elsewhere, and he co-edited ‘What Future: The Year’s Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate & Reinvent Our Future’ (Unnamed Press, 2017) and ‘Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War’ (Da Capo, 2013).
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