From 17 January 2025 it is also available in Italian bookstores “If the weather is crazy. How climate change changes our mind and our body.” Clayton Page Aldern’s essay wants to tell how climate change affects mental and physical health. A book necessary to see and know the global crisis under a new light
An essay that combines environment and well -being
Celebrated in the United States with the original title “The Weight of Nature” and translated into Italian by Teresa Albanese, “If the weather is crazy …” It is the result of seven years of research.
Clayton Page Aldern, neuroscientist and journalist, is the first to systematically analyze how climate change affects our mental health, as well as physical.
“If the weather is crazy …”: not just a problem for the environment
In an era marked by increasingly frequent extreme climatic events – such as bush the angels Or the flood of Valencia – Aldern invites us to consider climate change also as a real emergency of public health. His studies show how the alteration of the natural environment involves tangible consequences on a psychological and physical level: diseases change, their diffusion and our ability to face them.
An essay to bring real life experiences to light
Through the most recent research in neuroscience, psychology and behavioral economy, the author shows as environmental factors such as excessive heat or the increase in CO₂ are linked to more aggressive behaviors. But also, to the growth of domestic violence, online hatred and the drop in cognitive abilities.
The book, however, is also a human journey, with stories collected by different contexts, from Californian farms to the Arctic Norwegian communities, to tell authentic and touching experiences of those who already live on their skin these changes.
“If the weather is crazy …” does not just tell and superficially listing the problems: it is an appeal to responsibility, solidarity and collective action. An important contribution that wants to give voice to the environment and make the urgency to intervene, not only for the protection of the planet, but also for human well -being, including mental health and social cohesion.
Who is Clayton Page Aldern
Aldern collaborates with international newspapers such as The Atlantic, The Guardian, Vox, Newsweek, The Economist and Scientific American. Graduated in Oxford in neuroscience and public policies, he is now a researcher at the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology of theWashington University. His climate analyzes were rewarded and also presented to the White House.
