-Analysis- MADRID — In 2015, Roy Scranton published a book that became a climate bestseller: Learning to Die in the Anthropocene. His thesis is that, in the face of the climate emergency, we must assume that “this civilization is already dead.” Faced with the certainty of disaster, the only response would be to stoically assume the ecological collapse, and perhaps build again among the ruins of modern society. This defeatist outlook, which gives to the ecological collapse of our societies the status of destiny, is not anecdotal. Its presence is growing, both in ideological and scientific disco…