Roy Scranton
@royscranton.bsky.social
Learning to die. Latest book IMPASSE: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE LIMITS OF PROGRESS. Teaches at Notre Dame.
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Roy Scranton
@royscranton.bsky.social
· Aug 5
Impasse | Stanford University Press
A Next Big Idea Club "Must Read" for August 2025!We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe.Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming our planet. Yet instead of ser...
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🌡️📘 Aprender a vivir y a morir en el Antropoceno (Roy Scranton, 2021)
Pandemias, mares en ascenso y eventos extremos obligan a repensar cómo habitamos un planeta en crisis.
#educaciónambiental #cedreac #lecturarecomendada
Pandemias, mares en ascenso y eventos extremos obligan a repensar cómo habitamos un planeta en crisis.
#educaciónambiental #cedreac #lecturarecomendada
January 7, 2026 at 9:04 AM
🌡️📘 Aprender a vivir y a morir en el Antropoceno (Roy Scranton, 2021)
Pandemias, mares en ascenso y eventos extremos obligan a repensar cómo habitamos un planeta en crisis.
#educaciónambiental #cedreac #lecturarecomendada
Pandemias, mares en ascenso y eventos extremos obligan a repensar cómo habitamos un planeta en crisis.
#educaciónambiental #cedreac #lecturarecomendada
I wrote a thing for The Boston Globe: "The world is getting hotter. Pessimism may be our only hope."
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The world is getting hotter. Pessimism may be our only hope. - The Boston Globe
In the face of climate change, optimism is a dangerous delusion.
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January 11, 2026 at 12:39 PM
I wrote a thing for The Boston Globe: "The world is getting hotter. Pessimism may be our only hope."
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/11/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/11/o...
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Great panel at #MLA26 on freedom and/as literature with @royscranton.bsky.social, Zay Dale, Andrew Mossin, and @lorenglass.bsky.social — great set of talks, and so grateful to Loren for engaging with the book
January 10, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Great panel at #MLA26 on freedom and/as literature with @royscranton.bsky.social, Zay Dale, Andrew Mossin, and @lorenglass.bsky.social — great set of talks, and so grateful to Loren for engaging with the book
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Great panel at #MLA26 on freedom and/as literature with @royscranton.bsky.social, Zay Dale, Andrew Mossin, and @lorenglass.bsky.social — great set of talks, and so grateful to Loren for engaging with the book
January 10, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Great panel at #MLA26 on freedom and/as literature with @royscranton.bsky.social, Zay Dale, Andrew Mossin, and @lorenglass.bsky.social — great set of talks, and so grateful to Loren for engaging with the book
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The Impasse is an exploration of pessimism. If we want to have any hope at all for the future, it must be grounded in a recognition of human limits—a view Scranton calls ethical pessimism.
Find us at #HMLondon2025
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November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The Impasse is an exploration of pessimism. If we want to have any hope at all for the future, it must be grounded in a recognition of human limits—a view Scranton calls ethical pessimism.
Find us at #HMLondon2025
📚 buff.ly/dInxU0H
@histmat.bsky.social
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
Find us at #HMLondon2025
📚 buff.ly/dInxU0H
@histmat.bsky.social
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
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Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress by Roy Scranton
Review by Walter Cummins
Roy Scranton declares that the big moral question for humanity is “how to live in a fragmenting, increasingly incomprehensible world of accelerating catastrophe.”
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Review by Walter Cummins
Roy Scranton declares that the big moral question for humanity is “how to live in a fragmenting, increasingly incomprehensible world of accelerating catastrophe.”
calirb.com/impasse-clim...
Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress by Roy Scranton
Stanford Review by Walter Cummins I wish Impasse had been written when my wife was still alive. The book would have provided so much information and so many ideas to illuminate our ongoing discuss…
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December 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress by Roy Scranton
Review by Walter Cummins
Roy Scranton declares that the big moral question for humanity is “how to live in a fragmenting, increasingly incomprehensible world of accelerating catastrophe.”
calirb.com/impasse-clim...
Review by Walter Cummins
Roy Scranton declares that the big moral question for humanity is “how to live in a fragmenting, increasingly incomprehensible world of accelerating catastrophe.”
calirb.com/impasse-clim...
"Scranton wants us to face the inevitable with an ethical skepticism that is our best choice." Thanks to Walter Cummins for the great review in the California Review of Books. calirb.com/impasse-clim...
Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress by Roy Scranton
Stanford Review by Walter Cummins I wish Impasse had been written when my wife was still alive. The book would have provided so much information and so many ideas to illuminate our ongoing discuss…
calirb.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"Scranton wants us to face the inevitable with an ethical skepticism that is our best choice." Thanks to Walter Cummins for the great review in the California Review of Books. calirb.com/impasse-clim...
This is pure, unadulterated, irresponsible hopium. Solnit writes "2025 is the year that wind and sun outstripped coal as an energy source," but in fact its all renewables, still dominated by hydropower. And the idea that IJC can enforce ANYTHING is farcical.
Solnit's self-delusion is astonishing.
Solnit's self-delusion is astonishing.
December 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is pure, unadulterated, irresponsible hopium. Solnit writes "2025 is the year that wind and sun outstripped coal as an energy source," but in fact its all renewables, still dominated by hydropower. And the idea that IJC can enforce ANYTHING is farcical.
Solnit's self-delusion is astonishing.
Solnit's self-delusion is astonishing.
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
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they’re forcing kids to read “the caine mutiny,” because of wouk
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
they’re forcing kids to read “the caine mutiny,” because of wouk
Excited to talk about climate change, pessimism, and my new book IMPASSE tonight at The New School, with with Jay Bernstein and Joel Towers.
Come out New York!
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Come out New York!
event.newschool.edu/arnholdforum...
event.newschool.edu
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Excited to talk about climate change, pessimism, and my new book IMPASSE tonight at The New School, with with Jay Bernstein and Joel Towers.
Come out New York!
event.newschool.edu/arnholdforum...
Come out New York!
event.newschool.edu/arnholdforum...
I'll be talking about IMPASSE: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE LIMITS OF PROGRESS in NYC next Thursday, November 13, @thenewschool.bsky.social, with Jay Bernstein and Joel Towers. Register below.
event.newschool.edu/arnholdforum...
event.newschool.edu/arnholdforum...
event.newschool.edu
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I'll be talking about IMPASSE: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE LIMITS OF PROGRESS in NYC next Thursday, November 13, @thenewschool.bsky.social, with Jay Bernstein and Joel Towers. Register below.
event.newschool.edu/arnholdforum...
event.newschool.edu/arnholdforum...
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Here’s the way to think about climate change that I learned from @drkatemarvel.bsky.social:
We’re creating an increasingly chaotic and dangerous world, sending our children and grandchildren there, and they’re never coming back.
We’re creating an increasingly chaotic and dangerous world, sending our children and grandchildren there, and they’re never coming back.
October 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Here’s the way to think about climate change that I learned from @drkatemarvel.bsky.social:
We’re creating an increasingly chaotic and dangerous world, sending our children and grandchildren there, and they’re never coming back.
We’re creating an increasingly chaotic and dangerous world, sending our children and grandchildren there, and they’re never coming back.
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🌊 TONIGHT 10/21, 7pm PT, @royscranton.bsky.social with Mark Greif
Discussing Scranton's new work,
IMPASSE: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
Join us in the bookstore, or register for the livestream here: citylights.com/events/roy-s...
Discussing Scranton's new work,
IMPASSE: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
Join us in the bookstore, or register for the livestream here: citylights.com/events/roy-s...
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🌊 TONIGHT 10/21, 7pm PT, @royscranton.bsky.social with Mark Greif
Discussing Scranton's new work,
IMPASSE: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
Join us in the bookstore, or register for the livestream here: citylights.com/events/roy-s...
Discussing Scranton's new work,
IMPASSE: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
Join us in the bookstore, or register for the livestream here: citylights.com/events/roy-s...
Hey San Francisco! Join me tomorrow night @citylightsbooks.bsky.social to talk about IMPASSE, civilizational collapse, climate change, and pessimism with Mark Greif.
citylights.com/events/roy-s...
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citylights.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Hey San Francisco! Join me tomorrow night @citylightsbooks.bsky.social to talk about IMPASSE, civilizational collapse, climate change, and pessimism with Mark Greif.
citylights.com/events/roy-s...
citylights.com/events/roy-s...
"The question is not how to avert the end, but how to live ethically through it."
Great short review of IMPASSE in @thetls.bsky.social from Rhoda Feng.
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Great short review of IMPASSE in @thetls.bsky.social from Rhoda Feng.
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
In the face of collapse
In Impasse: Climate change and the limits of progress, Roy Scranton dispenses with the pieties of climate discourse – hope, innovation and “net zero”
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October 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"The question is not how to avert the end, but how to live ethically through it."
Great short review of IMPASSE in @thetls.bsky.social from Rhoda Feng.
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
Great short review of IMPASSE in @thetls.bsky.social from Rhoda Feng.
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
Hey Portland! I'll be at Powell's Books tomorrow night talking about IMPASSE and climate change with Omar El Akkad. Come on out.
www.powells.com/events/roy-s...
www.powells.com/events/roy-s...
Roy Scranton in Conversation with Omar El Akkad
The Legendary Independent Bookstore
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October 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Hey Portland! I'll be at Powell's Books tomorrow night talking about IMPASSE and climate change with Omar El Akkad. Come on out.
www.powells.com/events/roy-s...
www.powells.com/events/roy-s...
"A dune is never just a dune."
Very pleased to have this piece on the Indiana dunes, nature writing, and metaphysics up @emergencemagazine.bsky.social.
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Very pleased to have this piece on the Indiana dunes, nature writing, and metaphysics up @emergencemagazine.bsky.social.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/strang...
Strange New World – Roy Scranton
Looking beyond the flat, familiar landscape of his home in South Bend, Indiana, Roy Scranton lets himself be changed by the hidden histories and depths beneath its surface, so that the land may become...
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October 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"A dune is never just a dune."
Very pleased to have this piece on the Indiana dunes, nature writing, and metaphysics up @emergencemagazine.bsky.social.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/strang...
Very pleased to have this piece on the Indiana dunes, nature writing, and metaphysics up @emergencemagazine.bsky.social.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/strang...
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Roy Scranton in conversation with Omar El Akkad
Powell's City of Books
Thursday, October 16th
7:00 PM
"What emerges is a challenging but ultimately hopeful proposition: if we have the courage to accept our limits, we may find a way to embrace our unknowable future."
Powell's City of Books
Thursday, October 16th
7:00 PM
"What emerges is a challenging but ultimately hopeful proposition: if we have the courage to accept our limits, we may find a way to embrace our unknowable future."
Roy Scranton in Conversation with Omar El Akkad
The Legendary Independent Bookstore
www.powells.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Roy Scranton in conversation with Omar El Akkad
Powell's City of Books
Thursday, October 16th
7:00 PM
"What emerges is a challenging but ultimately hopeful proposition: if we have the courage to accept our limits, we may find a way to embrace our unknowable future."
Powell's City of Books
Thursday, October 16th
7:00 PM
"What emerges is a challenging but ultimately hopeful proposition: if we have the courage to accept our limits, we may find a way to embrace our unknowable future."
Hey Chicago! I'm at @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social at 4pm tonight to talk about climate change, narrative, and IMPASSE with Keith Makato Woodhouse. Come out!
www.semcoop.com/event/roy-sc...
www.semcoop.com/event/roy-sc...
Roy Scranton - "Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress" - Keith Woodhouse | Seminary Co-op Bookstores
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October 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Hey Chicago! I'm at @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social at 4pm tonight to talk about climate change, narrative, and IMPASSE with Keith Makato Woodhouse. Come out!
www.semcoop.com/event/roy-sc...
www.semcoop.com/event/roy-sc...