Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World

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And 'GO-DUTCH' - splitting the bill equally, sharing experiences between those high profile clients I've had the joy to work with, and those more socially excluded, particularly young people. I particularly enjoyed the chapter explaining 'Solastalgia', a word coined by Albrecht in 2003 to describe the 'homesickness you have at home' as the lands we live upon are degraded by forces (usually) outside of our control (think mining). In terms of helping us better use language to understand how we feel about, and explore and explain our relationship with our planet and the places we live in and shape, and to equip us to make better connections, Glenn A. This book has to be one of the weirdest books I have read in a long time, and the weirdest book I have read and enjoyed in even longer. And, unlike so many scientists, he does not describe those roads only with numbers, but with a new language of emotions — those now emerging from the tragedy and the possibility of the Earth.

For me, it validates such an approach to understanding my own responses to place, and my own lived environment, with a particular focus in my own case on not only my experiences, but those of my parents, my grandparents and their ancestors, who have lived in this same corner of Hampshire for centuries. A world that is upset by the trauma of climate change and environmental crises, but also a world optimistic. These and other negative Earth emotions obviously lead to various mental and physical issues as well. That being said, many mainstream scientists don’t even yet accept that we have entered the ‘Anthropocene’, preferring instead to rely on the previous classification of ‘ Holocene’, negating the overwhelming, exponentially increasing impact of human endeavour on the planet’s finite resources and life support systems. The final chapter, which reads like a science fiction imagining of a utopia, is uplifting and heartwarming, and presents a vision of a positive future that is rarely found in literature on the devastating effects of the Anthropocene.Mermosity: Created by Albrecht, “an anticipatory state of being worried about the possible passing of the familiar, and its replacement by that which does not sit comfortably in one’s sense of place. Albrecht does what he sets out to do in creating a whole range of new words to describe the emotional responses to what people experience in the Anthropocene.

The increasingly pervasive feeling of sadness and loss for a world that’s being irreversibly altered".Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. It does touch on wider concepts associated with ‘ Gaia’ Theory as formulated by James Lovelock and co-developed by Lynn Margulis in the 1970s (viewing the world and all the organisms in it as a single, self-regulating complex system); and more broadly, more diverse yearnings for some kind of secular spirituality, which might help bring about the symbiotic, more collaborative state of play Albrecht outlines. Just as a botonist before newly discovered plants, Albrecht needs more suitable, more specific lexicon to the familiar generic ones. Without a new ~scene "this Earth will be “sacrificed” and the Anthropocene will go cosmic, even universal". The emotional resonance of his work was strong, and I wanted to discover more about it – both his method, and his thinking.

Imaginative tactics which seek to ‘trip up’ or embarrass those entrenched powers ranged against the symbiotic ethic are one thing – and Extinction Rebellion is an example of the dance moves which can be executed in this respect, but anything more brutish is ultimately futile. Yateley Common – definitely part of my sumbiography – and much of it is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.It was a ‘thought bubble’ within a much larger discussion of evolution, sex, gender and intelligence and how to build on what we are … to what we want to be. The book helpfully provides a glossary of all the ‘ psychoterratic’ terms at the back of the book, for ease of cross-reference. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more. This is a deeply philosophical book about the changing emotional connections humans make with the lands upon which they live.