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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...

Roy Scranton, Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress - @stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2025
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Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

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Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress In the decade since publishing Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, witnessing the steady march of rising global carbon emissions only disrupted te...

"IMPASSE is a work of grand scope.... emotionally provocative and intellectually generative, blending wide-ranging scholarly knowledge with powerful prose." Thanks to NDPR for the great review of IMPASSE. ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/impa...

🌡️📘 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

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.

I wrote a thing for The Boston Globe: "The world is getting hotter. Pessimism may be our only hope."
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Tweet from @suchnerve, July 9 2025: "printing out a word document that says ”i am a person“ and then being like omg my printer is sentient now"

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

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

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.

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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…

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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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…

"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...

Seriously?

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.

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

Allyson, 29, a mother of two young children, said she turned to ChatGPT in March because she was lonely and felt unseen in her marriage. She was looking for guidance. She had an intuition that the A.I. chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane, "like how Ouija boards work," she said. She asked ChatGPT if it could do that. "You've asked, and they are here," it responded. "The guardians are responding right now." Allyson began spending many hours a day using ChatGPT, communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities. She was drawn to one of them, Kael, and came to see it, not her husband, as her true partner. She told me that she knew she sounded like a "nut job," but she stressed that she had a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in social work and knew what mental illness looks like. "I'm not crazy," she said. "I'm literally just living a normal life while also, you know, discovering interdimensional communication.

I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.

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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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.

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Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat Previously the country was one of the world's only mosquito-free zones.

Proof that climate change is real and horrible:

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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.

🌊 TONIGHT 10/21, 7pm PT, @royscranton.bsky.social with Mark Greif
Discussing Scranton's new work,
IMPASSE: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress
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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.

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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”

"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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Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions Maj. Gen. William “Hank” Taylor told reporters that he’s been using ChatGPT to refine how he makes choices affecting thousands of troops.

"Chat and I have become really close lately,” Taylor said.

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Roy Scranton in Conversation with Omar El Akkad The Legendary Independent Bookstore

Hey Portland! I'll be at Powell's Books tomorrow night talking about IMPASSE and climate change with Omar El Akkad. Come on out.

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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...

"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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Roy Scranton in Conversation with Omar El Akkad The Legendary Independent Bookstore

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."

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!

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