Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World

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If you do not have a society account or have forgotten your username or password, please contact your society. I strongly recommend this book to anybody, David, who enjoys more than just a getaway story for distraction. When exploring all the aspects of what goes to make up a ‘place’, as with the fragment pieces of a family tree it can become more difficult to discern with each year if you don’t already know the story. Despite the threat that the book overcomplicates its own language, Albrecht keeps his argument relevant and justifies each term well. He shines a light on Potawatomi; a Native American language in which not only humans, animals and plants are alive, but most objects we consider inanimate – like mountains, boulders, winds and fire too.

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. The book also proposed alternative green world where positive eco-psychologcial responses could be generated. 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. Yateley Common – definitely part of my sumbiography – and much of it is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.The battle between the forces of destruction and the forces of creation will be won by Generation Symbiocene, and Earth Emotions presents an ethical and emotional odyssey for that victory.

This book captured my interest when it was introduced to me during Positive Psychology module in university. Psychoterratic’ is a term coined by Albrecht relating to states of our positive and negative wellbeing linked directly to the Earth and the environment. Earth Emotions as a book intrigued me for its offering of a discussion of the “full range of our emotional responses to the emergent state of the world”. The second is ‘ solastalgia’, a term coined by by Albrecht to mean a ‘form of psychic or existential distress caused by environmental change’ – a distinctive kind of unhappiness of people whose landscapes were being transformed about them by forces beyond their control, so a very specific kind of homesickness.Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. Terrafuric: Coined by Albrecht, “the extreme anger unleashed within those who can clearly see the self-destructive tendencies in the current forms of industrial-technological society and feel they must protest and act to change its direction. As a fellow old hippy, I want peaceful change as well … but with the global ascendancy of the militaristic and violent Right, peace seems a long way off. While some of the words mean little to me, either they aren't something I feel or the obscure etymology and formation meant they were hard to follow. At one point, the globalized "melting pot" of eco-systems is presented as "a reality" we can no longer change, and so is the globalized "melting pot" of cultures.