The Weight of Nature How a Changing Climate Changes Our Minds, Brains and Bodies

"Elegant, convincingly argued [...] a calm voice in a world of chaos [...] impossible to ignore"
– Philippa Nuttall, New Statesman

"A neuroscientist shows the myriad ways that our warming climate is making us cranky, dopey and sick [...] Aldern has managed to do something that most books about climate change fail to: cast the problem in a new light, revealing it to be more insidious than it first appeared"
– Ben Cooke, The Times

"In The Weight of Nature, Clayton Page Aldern comes closer than anyone in a long time to articulating why so many of us feel queasy about climate change: it is altering the landscape but also us [...] Beautifully written, this heatwave reading will give you the chills"
– Anjana Ahuja, Financial Times

"Arresting revelations [...] this is not another book about climate anxiety"
– Financial Times

"Aldern is an excellent storyteller, drawing on interviews and personal experience, with an elegant prose style [...] and his background in neuroscience puts him on a strong footing to explore the mechanistic impacts of climate change on brain function and chemistry"
– George Marshall, TLS

"Aldern is the rare writer who dares to ask how climate change has already changed us"
– The New York Times, Book Review

"This important watershed book has powerful immediacy as it explains in a clear, warm voice precisely how climate change is making tiny incremental changes in our brains and bodies. Many believe that human brains and bodies can resist or adapt to a warming world. But we learn here that there are limits. Penetrating, intensely personal, and impossible to put down, this is a book you need to read"
– Annie Proulx, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"It's hard, at this late date, to write something profound and new about the overarching crisis of our times. But Clayton Aldern has succeeded – this book is a triumph, rigorous in its reporting but also in its thinking and feeling. I learned an awful lot"
– Bill McKibben

"What a book! Profound, revelatory, exquisitely written – The Weight of Nature is an unnerving insight into the effects climate change is having on us, as human beings, right now. This is vital, urgent reading, a lifeline to lead us out of the labyrinth."
– Isabella Tree

"Clayton Page Aldern's writing is so engaging, his research so novel, and his inquiry into our brains and bodies so timely and revealing that this is a rare climate change book you'll actually savor"
– Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us and Countdown