[4] It was called "One of the best and most disturbing war novels in years" by Sam Sacks in The Wall Street Journal.

"[13] Commenting on his bluntness, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow of the Los Angeles Review of Books wrote, "There is something cathartic about his refusal to shy away from the full scope of our predicament.

"[14] Historian Naomi Oreskes named Learning to Die in the Anthropocene one of the "five best books on the politics of climate change."

She wrote, "I think he's fundamentally right about the essential point, which is that we have a tremendously difficult time assimilating just how serious this problem really is.

"[15] In the book How to Blow Up a Pipeline,[16] author Andreas Malm criticized Scranton,[17] stating that Scranton is united with other critics of climate activism by "a reification of despair"[18] which Malm called "an eminently understandable emotional response to the crisis, but unserviceable as a response for a politics in it.