• Climate Change Is Literally Transforming Our Brains (w/ Clayton Page Aldern)

  • Oct 9 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
  • Podcast

Climate Change Is Literally Transforming Our Brains (w/ Clayton Page Aldern)

  • Summary

  • As our environment changes, so do our brains. Climate changes impact our physical environments is many noticeable ways, but it's also changing us on the inside as well. Clayton Page Aldern is a neuroscientist turned environmental journalist who has unpacked this phenomenon in his new book, The Weight of Nature: How A Changing Climate Changes Our Brains. He joins the show this week to discuss how our brains adapt to climate change and limits we face, how shifting baseline syndrome impacts climate action, what's happening to our brains under rising temperatures, and what climate changes tell us about broader ideas surrounding free will.

    Clayton's work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, The New Republic, Mother Jones, Vox, Newsweek, The Economist, Scientific American, and Grist, where he is a senior data reporter.

    Read The Weight of Nature: How A Changing Climate Changes Our Brains

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