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

If we believe the climate crisis is real, why is it so difficult to change our behavior and our consumer tendencies?



Minding the Climate investigates this problem in the neuroscience of decision-making. Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD, points to the evolution of the human brain during eons of resource scarcity. The brain adapted to prioritize short-term survival over more uncertain long-term outcomes. But the resulting behavioral architecture is poorly suited to the present, when scarcity is a les...