{"product_id":"the-weight-of-nature-how-a-changing-climate-changes-our-brains-hardcover","title":"The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClayton Page Aldern\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA deeply reported, eye-opening book about climate change, our brains, and the weight of nature on us all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The march of climate change is stunning and vicious, with rising seas, extreme weather, and oppressive heat blanketing the globe. But its effects on our very brains constitute a public-health crisis that has gone largely unreported. Based on seven years of research, this book by the award-winning journalist and trained neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern, synthesizes the emerging neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics of global warming and brain health. A masterpiece of literary journalism, this book shows readers how a changing environment is changing us today, from the inside out. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Aldern calls it the weight of nature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hotter temperatures make it harder to think clearly and problem-solve. They increase the chance of impulsive violence. Immigration judges are more likely to reject asylum applications on hotter days. Umpires, to miss calls. Air pollution, heatwaves, and hurricanes can warp and wear on memory, language, and sensory systems; wildfires seed PTSD. And climate-fueled ecosystem changes extend the reach of brain-disease carriers like mosquitos, brain-eating amoebas, and the bats that brought us the mental fog of long COVID. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e How we feel about climate change matters deeply; but this is a book about much more than climate anxiety. As Aldern richly details, it is about the profound, direct action of global warming on our brains and behavior--and the most startling portrait yet of unforeseen environmental influences on our minds. From farms in the San Joaquin Valley and public schools across the United States to communities in Norway's Arctic, the Micronesian islands, and the French Alps, this book is an unprecedented portrait of a global crisis we thought we understood.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eClayton Aldern is a neuroscientist turned environmental journalist whose work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, The Guardian, The New Republic, Mother Jones, Vox, Newsweek, The Economist, Scientific American, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Grist\u003c\/i\u003e, where he is a senior data reporter. His climate change data visualizations have appeared in a variety of forums, including on the US Senate floor in a speech by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Rhodes Scholar and a Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow, he holds a master's in neuroscience and a master's in public policy from the University of Oxford. He is also a research affiliate at the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington, a grantee of the Pulitzer Center, and has contributed to reporting teams that have won a national Edward R. Murrow Award, multiple Online Journalism Awards, and the Breaking Barriers Award from the Institute for Nonprofit News. See claytonaldern.com or follow him on Twitter @compatibilism.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.16 x 9.25 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700388597856,"sku":"9780593472743","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-weight-of-nature-how-a-changing-climate-changes-our-brains-hardcover","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}