Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World

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O.Wilson) and eco-feminists and other scholars, so in a way this book is a symbiosis of ideas for healthier planet. There are two trees at the back of my neighbour’s garden that talk to me – and have done for almost 45 years. I strongly recommend this book to anybody, David, who enjoys more than just a getaway story for distraction. 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. Particularly in evidence in the year running up to the run-up to the onset of the pandemic with people like Greta Thunberg and movements like Extinction Rebellion – and not set to evaporate anytime soon.

Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases.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.

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. What we choose to do with the insights on a personal, on a community, and on a global level is another matter. Despite the threat that the book overcomplicates its own language, Albrecht keeps his argument relevant and justifies each term well.Philosopher Glenn Albrecht, in writing Earth Emotions, is creating a language that ties together humanity and our surrounding environment, both in the positive and negative. 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. He has created an extensive glossary of terms that relate to emotional responses to nature and environment.

The increasingly pervasive feeling of sadness and loss for a world that’s being irreversibly altered". 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. Meteoranxiety: Created by Albrecht, this term is one that was particularly apposite prior to the pandemic, and it will continue to be so. There is no escaping however an association with the unique biosphere and environment of a local area which are usually responsible for creating the rhythms which have contributed to creating those identities. What had been a fairly clear and compelling statement about symbiotic life (with more neologisms than necessary or helpful) unravels into a mess.Personally, I feel it is less strong in helping to advance practical strategies for reaching that better world – it has to be read in tandem with other work on seeking to understand power and economics. Symbiocene’ is characterised in terms of social organisation ‘by human intelligence that replicates the symbiotic and mutually reinforcing life-reproducing forms and processes found in living systems…. 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. My terrier Poppy sniffs out the rare and unique on the local forest floor, in this case, fungi on a walk at Bramshill, Hampshire.