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''Penetrating, intensely personal, and impossible to put down, this is a book you need to read.'' Annie Proulx, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
''This book is a triumph.'' Bill McKibben
A riveting, revelatory account of how the climate emergency is changing us from the inside out
It is now inarguable that climate change threatens the future of life on Earth. But in The Weight of Nature, award-winning journalist and neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern shows that the warming climate is not just affecting our planet it is affecting our brains and bodies too.
Drawing on seven years of ground-breaking research, Aldern documents a burgeoning public health crisis that has gone largely unreported. Eco-anxiety, he shows us, is just the tip of the iceberg. The rapidly changing environment is directly intervening in our brain health, behaviour, decision-making and cognition in real time, affecting everything from spikes in aggravated
