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. Just as a botonist before newly discovered plants, Albrecht needs more suitable, more specific lexicon to the familiar generic ones. It begins in the South West of Western Australia for the first two decades of his life, before switching to Newcastle in New South Wales, and in particular, the Hunter Valley. Sumbiocentric: “Taking into account the centrality of the process of symbiosis in all of our deliberations on human affairs”. We need this creation of a hopeful vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we can extract ourselves out of environmental desolation and reignite our millennia-old biophilia―love of life―for our home planet.

He established the now widely used and accepted concept of solastalgia, or the lived experience of negative environmental change. Defending themselves against charges of inaction or incompetence, the same politician responds in a monotone voice, from a pre-scripted reply that “we’re straining every sinew”. This is a deeply philosophical book about the changing emotional connections humans make with the lands upon which they live.If you are going to go down the path of endorsing regional and local allegiance in a nature as well as culture context as part of your Utopia, but also keep bringing up how climate change will lead to mass migration, then you better have a really well-conceived philosophical defence system against the easy leap from "This is OUR land and people" to "This is OUR land and NOT YOURS, so go away". We need this creation of a hopeful vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we can extract ourselves out of environmental desolation and reignite our millennia-old biophilia—love of life—for our home planet. Maybe I’m just become too much of a hippy, or betraying that I’m someone who once flirted with the Quakers, but I don’t want to take on the personality of those that I’m ‘taking on’, especially when it comes to use of ‘masculine muscle’. Glenn Albrecht is one of the most important eco-philosophers of our time, though the term 'eco-philosopher' may be too narrow.

DOUBLE-DUTCH' moves - elegant communication like the steps which mesmerized me in Malcolm McLaren's famous track.

e. separating human cultures and all the xenophobia that comes with that) nor do we get a convincing argument as to how and why we can block such implications. An essential book with some important insights into how we navigate and express our emotions in this age of climate emergency. As a result, this will have to lead to a ‘ Sumbiocracy’ – new forms of mutually beneficial government. It leads children to have little or no empathy (at all) for wilderness = places largely untouched my humans.

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. 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. Without a new ~scene "this Earth will be “sacrificed” and the Anthropocene will go cosmic, even universal".The book begins with the negative in concepts like "solastalgia", "the existential and lived experience of negative environmental change" (p38), then follows with the affirming in concepts like "Symbiocene" or a future epoch of mutualism between people and their environment.

Though occasionally weighed down by the philosophical/linguistic analysis, Albrecht offers several interesting frameworks – in particular, the Symbiocene – that provide fruitful territory for artists to imagine into being. Then the term "Jihad" is thrown around in bizarre ways, and the woes of masculinity in the 21st century are solved by channeling the "ALPHA" MALE SENTIMENTS into "GREEN MUSCLE" for "WW3". The main criticism for this book, which is primarily a eco-psychology overview of climate change, is it doesn't empower the readers to go in the real world and create a wave of positive eco-psychology around us.There is a worry that new generations may mature into adults that have fear at the appearance of unexpectedness, so they more likely spend their time in climate controlled boxes and grow their ignorance to "otherness". 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. 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”.