A deliciously distillate yet elucidate vessel of climatological neuroepidemiology, The Weight of Nature takes a fresh approach to the ecological non-fiction book.

Not what you might expect from a book on environmental neuroscience – this story begins with the acknowledgement that the exhaustion of Earth and the depletion of the spirit are intrinsically linked and cripplingly liminal. “I’ve been feeling like I don’t fully exist,” begins Aldern, quoting water advocate Dezaraye Bagalayos, “like how I imagine the Earth to be feeling.”

A palimpsest of seven years of research, global ...

 

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