We're doomed. Now what? : essays on war and climate change /

The time we've been thrown into is one of alarming and bewildering change, the breakup of the post-1945 global order, a multispecies mass extinction and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. Not one of us is innocent, not one of us is safe. Now what? We're Doomed, Now Wha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Scranton, Roy, 1976- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Soho Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Civilization, Modern > 21st century. Climatic changes. War. Social change. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays. HISTORY / Military / Iraq War (2003-)

Table of Contents:

I. Climate & change. We're doomed. Now what? ; Arctic ghosts ; Anthropocene City ; Rock scissors paper ; Climate change and the dharma of failure ; The precipice
II. War & memory. War and the city ; Memories of my green machine ; Back to Baghdad ; The fantasy of American violence
III. Violence & communion. The terror of the new ; The trauma hero ; The idea of order I can't breathe ; War of choice ; My flesh and blood
IV. Last thoughts. What is thinking good for? ; Raising a daughter in a doomed world.