Scranton believes that human beings are killing existing life by ignoring the effects of global warming on the world. He continues to warn the reader that change is coming, regardless of what people do now and that the human race must prepare for what inevitably happens, for it will be the collapse of world civilization as we know it. knows her. Scranton states that the period we live in, the Anthropocene, presents humans with multiple challenges, but most importantly “what it means to be human” (page 234). How to control the inevitable