Melting brains and climate anxiety

Future Tense

The heating climate is now recognised as a threat to our inner world – to brain health and rationality. Extreme temperatures not only impact our ability to think and our decision-making they also increase the presence of neurotoxins in the environment. And that can lead to disease and mental degeneration. We speak with the head of the newly formed International Neuro Climate Working Group. Climate anxiety is also caused by changes in our brains. So, is that a blessing or a curse?

Guests

Clayton Page Aldern – Neuroscientist, author and senior reporter, Grist.

Dr Burcin Ikiz – Neuroscientist and Chair of the International Neuro Climate Working Group

Professor Joshua Carlson – Director of the Cognitive X Affective Behaviour and Integrative Neuroscience Lab, Northern Michigan University

Further information

Clayton Aldern - The Weight of Nature.How a Changing Climate Changes Our Minds, Brains and Bodies

The Melting brain

Joshua Carlon - The Age of Climate Anxiety

Climate change on the brain: Neural correlates of climate anxiety