Penguin Random House publishing author pitch:
THE WEIGHT OF NATURE: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains – By Clayton Page Aldern
Just after last Sunday was declared the hottest day recorded on Earth, it was just announced that Monday surpassed it. It’s only going to get hotter—and people don’t realize that not only is our planet changing because of climate change, but it’s physically changing us as well. Neuroscientist-turned-environmental journalist Clayton Page Aldern discusses how the changing climate—increasing heat chief among them—is physically changing our brain, affecting our personalities, and influencing our decisions without us even realizing it in his new book THE WEIGHT OF NATURE (on sale now.)
Aldern is available for interview and can discuss:
- The profound impact of climate change on neurological health, with concrete examples from crime rates increasing to test scores lowering during hot days
- Neurologically speaking, why these effects occur—why heat can make us more aggressive, why heat affects how we think
- What we can do to boost our cognitive resilience in the heat
- Climate change’s invisible stressors, like heat and atmospheric carbon dioxide, are silently exacerbating neurological diseases, including cognitive impairments and neurodegenerative conditions, amidst a worrying lack of public awareness
- Why we must integrate the profound impacts of climate change on neurological health into public discourse and policy
- And more.
