We're Doomed. Now What?
Essays on War and Climate Change

Roy Scranton is an interesting person. A teenage reprobate, full of angst and protest, he drifted from one low level job to another, eventually coming back to live in his mother’s basement. A stint in the army that took him to Iraq both straightened him out and screwed him up. He came back to become......more

There is a lot of good in this book, it just needed to be written by someone else. Roy Scranton (and most of humanity) is part of the reason why we're doomed. He knows how bad the systems within the machine that is killing our planet. Like eating meat, traveling (air travel specifically), and consum......more

"The greatest peril in life lies in the fact that human food consists entirely of souls," an Inuk named Invaluardjuk told Danish anthropologist Knud Rasmussen a century ago. "All the creatures that we have to kill and eat, all those that we have to strike down and destroy to make clothes for ourselv......more

**95th Climate Book** (I read only the sections on climate change; the sections on war and violence I skimmed, but too quickly to comment on it) I'm giving up on Roy Scranton. He writes beautifully. It's lyrical and well-constructed. However, if this book were written by a woman, it would be called his......more

Roy Scranton “We’re Doomed. Now What?” Essays on War and Climate Change is frankly a misnomer there is nothing in this about climate change I bought this book thinking that I really would appreciate someone giving me a philosophical foundation for dealing with my feelings about the Climate changing......more