📗 Libro en inglés THE WEIGHT OF NATURE

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 McKibbenA riveting revelatory account of how the climate emergency is changing us from the inside outIt 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 assault to lower levels of productivity and concentration to the global dementia epidemic Travelling the world to meet the scientists and doctors unravelling the tangled connections between us and our environment and reporting the stories of those who are already feeling these shifts most keenly Aldern shows how climate change isn t just around us but wit