Habitations The Sage Magazine Podcast

Antonia Juhasz is a leading author and investigative journalist covering the oil industry. She has written extensively on the influence of Big Oil, the intersection between oil companies and the U.S. government, and the resistance to oil - including the recent protests at Standing Rock. She is the author of three books: Black Tide (2011), The Tyranny of Oil (2008), and The Bush Agenda (2006).

Dale Jamieson is a Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at NYU, as well as Chair of the Environmental Studies Department. He is also Affiliated Professor of Law at NYU Law, and the Director of the Animal Studies Initiative. In his 2014 book, "Reason in a Dark Time: Why The Struggle Against Climate Change Failed and What it Means for our Future," Jamieson argues that climate change fundamentally challenges the ‘commonsense morality’ that we evolved, and thus requires that we expand our ethical imaginations to deal with this unprecedented problem. Most recently, he co-wrote a book of fictional short stories with Bonnie Nadzam in 2015 called "Love in the Anthropocence."

Writer, journalist, and Iraq war veteran Roy Scranton discusses the ideas behind his viral 2013 NY Times article entitled "Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene," which he later expanded into a book of the same name. Scranton argues that the main challenge facing humanity in an era of irreversible climate change is not one that science, engineering or policy can answer. Rather, its is a deeply philosophical conundrum – he says that in order to survive as a civilization, we first need to learn how to die.