Aussie Govt ABC: “If we want to learn to live in the Anthropocene, we must first learn how to die”
14 hours ago Eric Worrall
The only way out is through: Embracing the existential weirdness of the era of climate change
Oliver Gough
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Learning to die?
Roy Scranton is another writer who advocates for a deep and scary thought experiment to move past terminal inaction and sluggishness on climate change. He boldly suggests: “If we want to learn to live in the Anthropocene, we must first learn how to die.” The practice of coming to terms with an extinction of human beings and the existence of a planet without us can lead to a humbling, realistic and truly ecological way of thinking.
This extension of Morton’s “dark ecology” further does away with assumptions of human triumph over the elements, and accepts that: “Carbon-fuelled capitalism and its techno-utopian ideologues have promised infinite growth and infinite innovation, yet they have proven incapable of saving us from the disaster they have made.”
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