The weight of nature

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For readers of Kolbert's Under a White Sky and Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life, to all those who love science books about the brain

The effects of climate change on our brains are a public health crisis that has gone largely unreported. Based on six years of research, award-winning journalist and trained neuroscientist Clayton Aldern synthesizes the emerging neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics of climate change and brain health. A masterpiece of deeply reported, superb literary journalism, this book shows readers how a changing environment is changing us, today, from the inside out. Aldern calls it the weight of nature.

Newly named mental conditions include: climate grief, ecoanxiety, environmental melancholia, pre-traumatic stress disorder. High-schoolers are preparing for a chaotic climate with the same combination of urgency, fear, and resignation they reserve for active-shooter drills. But mostly, as Aldern richly details, we don’t realize what global warming is doing to our brains.

More heat means it is harder to think straight. Even at a mere 92 degrees, data shows that IQ measurably decreases. We now know that solar radiation influences serotonin release, which in turn increases the chance of impulsive violence. Air pollution from wildfires affects everything from sleeplessness to baseball umpires’ error rates. Heat makes us less forgiving. Immigration judges are more likely to reject asylum applications on hotter days. And these kinds of mental health problems are not easily medicated. Certain drugs we might look to just aren’t as effective at higher temperatures. And, ugh, climate-fueled ecosystem changes extend the reach of brain disease carriers like the mosquitos of cerebral-malaria fame, brain-eating amoebae, and the bats that brought us the mental fog of long Covid.

From farms in the San Joaquim Valley and public schools across the US to communities in Norway's arctic, African war zones and Asian deltas this is a disturbing, unprecedented portrait of a global crisis we thought we understood.

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Verhalen van de natuur

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Dit boek bevat twintig meeslepende verhalen over geschiedenis heden en toekomst van de natuur bijeengebracht door hans mulder de thema s van de verhalen verzameld benoemd veranderen verweven en verdwenen zijn ontleend aan de tentoonstelling de roep van de o o natuur onder druk in het alla Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 09 april 2024

Aantal pagina's: 336

Hoofdauteur: Clayton Page Aldern

Hoofduitgeverij: Dutton

Product breedte: 160 mm

Product hoogte: 29 mm

Product lengte: 235 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 160 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 29 mm

Verpakking lengte: 235 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 544 g

EAN: 9780593472743

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