Rose reduced to tears over Scanton's 'drive into the future'

Roy Scranton.

Roy Scranton’s piece “Learning how to die in the anthropocene” left Anna Rose in tears.

Scranton served in the U.S. military from 2002 to 2006 and tells of his experiences in arriving in Baghdad and likened it to “driving into the future”.

And the future he said arrived, for Americans, not because of war, but because of climate change being expressed when Hurricane Katrina demolished New Orleans and Hurricane Sandy left New Yorkers gasping.

Scranton discusses the extreme prognosis delivered by the World Bank and the equally hard to comprehend findings of many of the world’s leading climatologists, that when considered objectively, threaten humanity’s survival.