Minding The Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis Ann-Christine Duhaime Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Science

A Neurosurgeon Explores How Our Tendency To Prioritize Short-Term Consumer Pleasures Spurs Climate Change But Also The Brain’s Amazing Capacity For Flexibility Can—And Likely Will—Enable Us Long-Term Survival Of Humanity Increasingly Politicians Activists Media Figures And Public At Large Agree That Is An Urgent Problem Yet Sense Urgency Rarely Translates Into Serious Remedies If We Believe Crisis Real Why It So Difficult Behavior Tendencies?Minding Investigates This In Neuroscience Decision-Making Particular Ann-Christine Duhaime Md Points Evolution Human Brain During Eons Resource Scarcity Understandably Adapted Over More Uncertain Outcomes Resulting Behavioral Architecture Poorly Suited Present When Lesser Concern Slow-Moving Novel Challenges Like Environmental Issues Greatest Danger Details Even Acknowledged Best Interests Are Thwarted By Reward System: Isn’t Perceived As Immediately Beneficial Probably Won’t Do It—Never Mind “Know” Should What Happens Lament While Indulging Satisfactions Ensure Disaster Will Continue Luckily Can Sway Brains Those Others Alter Behaviors Describes Concrete Achievable Interventions Have Been Shown Encourage Neurological Circuits Embrace New Rewards Such Small Incremental Steps Individuals Take Whether Their Roles Consumers Workplace Or Leadership Positions Necessary Mitigate Understand Tendencies Be Overridden Adapt Argues Future Σελίδες: 336 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1216 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm