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Description of  Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis

A neurosurgeon explores how our tendency to prioritize short-term consumer pleasures spurs climate change, but also how the brains amazing capacity for flexibility canand likely willenable us to prioritize the long-term survival of humanity. Increasingly politicians, activists, media figures, and the public at large agree that climate change is an urgent problem. Yet that sense of urgency rarely translates into serious remedies. If we believe the climate crisis is real, why is it so difficult to change our behavior and our consumer tendencies? Read more