Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World

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It has helped reinforce to me why social, economic, political, cultural and historical factors are important in this respect, but now better understanding that they are informed by environment and nature at their heart. 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. I’ve long described such feelings in an almost physical sense – almost like I’m subject to a long-standing, low-level dose of electrical current – no ‘shock’, just mild ‘unease’. The book promotes an antidote to the Anthropocene in the form of the 'Symbiocene', a future era where positive earth emotions will flourish. The first is “ Symbiocene” – the name Albrecht wishes to rechristen and remould the current geological and climactic epoch – the “Anthropocene” – which has seen human activity have such a dominant, overwhelming, and almost certainly scarring impact on our planet, and prospects for future survival.

Despite the threat that the book overcomplicates its own language, Albrecht keeps his argument relevant and justifies each term well.Just as a botonist before newly discovered plants, Albrecht needs more suitable, more specific lexicon to the familiar generic ones. Part of Macfarlane’s book which most captivated me was where he looks at language, and the challenge to get beyond the literal – for example, the ‘language of plants’, rather than just the language that is used to speak ‘of plants’.

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. Starting with a recently defined negative earth emotion, 'solastalgia', the reader is taken on a psycho-terratic (psyche-earth) journey through all of the earth emotions and feelings in use in the public and academic literature.For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. 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’. Earth Emotions speak about current century and newly descriptive terms help to understand mostly explainable emotions and how psyche and body connects with Earth, moreover how climate change affects mental health. It explains the author's concept of solastalgia and other well-known eco-emotions such as biophilia and topophilia. Our lecturer referred to it a lot and used many of the words introduced in the book to emphasise how interrelated are the concepts of nature connectedness and mental wellbeing.