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The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains
Maybe someday
46
/100
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Readers
49/100Critics
44/100Scholars
Author:
Clayton Page Aldern
Publisher:
Dutton
Date:
April 9, 2024
The march of climate change is stunning and vicious, but its effects on our brains constitute a public-health crisis that has gone largely unreported. Based on seven years of research, this book by journalist and neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern synthesizes the emerging neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics of global warming and brain health.
What The Reviewers Say
Regardless of whether you live in a wildfire zone or a hurricane alley, or swim in warm ponds, his central insights hold, and deserve emphasis. Aldern is the rare writer who dares to ask how climate change has already changed us..
Parts of the discussion are self-evident.
This is a unique—and uniquely disturbing—addition to the literature. A lyrical and scientifically rigorous account of the emotional and physical toll climate change is taking on the human brain..
Though the more speculative arguments remain open to debate, research on the deleterious psychological effects of severe heat offers a unique perspective on how humans will be changed by a warming world..
