Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis Duhaime Ann-Christine
Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis Duhaime Ann-Christine A neurosurgeon explores how our tendency to prioritize short-term consumer pleasures spurs climate…
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Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis Duhaime Ann-Christine
A neurosurgeon explores how our tendency to prioritize short-term consumer pleasures spurs climate change, but also how the brain's amazing capacity for flexibility can--and likely will--enable 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. If we believe the climate crisis is real, why is it so difficult to change our behavior and our consumer tendencies?Climate Brain investigates this problem in the neuroscience of decisionmaking. Yet that sense of urgency rarely translates into serious remedies.
Understandably, the brain adapted to prioritize short-term survival over more uncertain long-term outcomes. But the In particular, Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD, points to the evolution of the human brain during eons of resource scarcity.