Currents | The Weight of Nature with Clayton Page Aldern
This discussion will reveal the profound neurological impacts of environmental change. What happens to human consciousness when the planet itself is in crisis? This program is presented in conjunction with CAM's newest exhibition, Human/Nature: Envisioning the Environment.
Clayton Page Aldern is a neuroscientist turned environmental journalist and data scientist who works at the intersection of climate change, neuroscience, and public policy. A senior data reporter at Grist and research affiliate at the University of Washington’s Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology, his work has appeared in The Guardian, The Economist, The Atlantic, Aeon, and other publications. He is the author of The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains and co-author, with Gregg Colburn, of Homelessness is a Housing Problem. Aldern holds master's degrees in neuroscience and public policy from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. As part of investigative teams, his work has won a national Edward R. Murrow Award, multiple Online Journalism Awards, multiple Sigma Awards, the Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting, and the Indigenous Journalists Association's Richard LaCourse Award for Investigative Journalism.
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