'We need to accept that we failed on climate change,' says Roy Scranton
Author of "Learning to Die in The Anthropocene," Roy Scranton believes the world has passed the point of no return with climate change. At this point, civilization is doomed and we need to learn how to have a good death.
Roy Scranton believes that no matter what comes out of the Paris conference, our civilization is likely already doomed.
Roy Scranton is a former US soldier who served during the second Iraq war. He is also a journalist whose articles have appeared in the New York Times and Rolling Stone magazine.
His new book is called "Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization."
Roy Scranton was in Princeton, New Jersey.
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This segment was produced by The Current's Howard Goldenthal.