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 six 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 a weary world is wearing on us. Written in
urgent and deeply moving prose The Weight of Nature is a revelation bringing to light the
myriad ways the changing environment is changing our very humanity from the inside out.
