Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World

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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. My terrier Poppy sniffs out the rare and unique on the local forest floor, in this case, fungi on a walk at Bramshill, Hampshire. 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.

The book promotes an antidote to the Anthropocene in the form of the 'Symbiocene', a future era where positive earth emotions will flourish. An odd fungus growing under the seqouia tree at St Mary’s Church, Eversley, Hampshire – supposedly planted from a sapling from the seed of a fir cone which Charles Kingsley collected on a lecture tour of the western USA – a beautiful piece of topophilia sourced back to the 1870s. The purpose of these terms is twofold: first, to allow people make better sense of themselves and of their relationship with the planet; second, to encourage development of a more meaningful and optimistic outlook toward the planet. The description of the feeling of nostalgia and sadness associated with experiences of changes in place during the Anthropocene.His encouragement of patriotism, tribalism and regionalism seem to be in good faith, but also slip into the risk of being weaponised by eco-fascists. 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". Each word or term it added to our lexicon did more than add a label – it unravelled more understanding and scope for reflection about our relationship with where we live on so many levels, and as a result, how things just might be done differently. It explains the author's concept of solastalgia and other well-known eco-emotions such as biophilia and topophilia.

It means a love of peculiar places, so it is about a strong sense of place, but infused with cultural and historical identity. 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. Apart from the emotion typology which is at least fun and fruitful regardless of how stringent it may be (similar to how personality typologies tend to be bullshit but at the same time very fun and fruitful), the outlook of the book is just confusing and, I think, confused. However, I’m not so convinced when it touches on other political or activist strategies for change which at times seemed to give a green light for ‘ends justifying the means’, when the whole ethos of the symbiocene should surely be to ‘ do as you would be done by’, and live and breathe the life it advocates.Meteoranxiety: Created by Albrecht, this term is one that was particularly apposite prior to the pandemic, and it will continue to be so.

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. An essential book with some important insights into how we navigate and express our emotions in this age of climate emergency. For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. And indeed, the book does a good job of defining a whole suite of terms to describe various Earth emotions.A world that is upset by the trauma of climate change and environmental crises, but also a world optimistic. We have taken words for granted, abused their use, and in many cases, they have become meaningless, yet we have a growing number of feelings, or circumstances connected with our relationship with the world around us for which it is difficult to find words which do them justice. 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. 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.