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Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World

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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. 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. 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. My grandad, Frank Holland, died in 2014, and since he and my Nan were not able to have any boys, I wanted to keep their name and ethos going. 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.

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. 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.Since most things are animate, it shapes the way that the people not only relate to each other, but to the world around them. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves.

Just as a botonist before newly discovered plants, Albrecht needs more suitable, more specific lexicon to the familiar generic ones. It explains the author's concept of solastalgia and other well-known eco-emotions such as biophilia and topophilia. DOUBLE-DUTCH' moves - elegant communication like the steps which mesmerized me in Malcolm McLaren's famous track. 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 increasingly pervasive feeling of sadness and loss for a world that’s being irreversibly altered". There are two trees at the back of my neighbour’s garden that talk to me – and have done for almost 45 years. How do we possibly process the overwhelming information about climate change, and how it will impact on the places we know?

Albrecht steps up to meet the need to better express the evolving relationships between our sense of place, our emotions and our wider biophysical health. He established the now widely used and accepted concept of solastalgia, or the lived experience of negative environmental change. By unpacking all of that at first hand in an almost autoethnographic fashion, it helps with his wider ‘psychoterratic’ mission.In Earth Emotions, Glenn Albrecht, explores the need for new more suitable terms for new feelings, new sensations in our world of upheaval, forced migration, forced displacement and changes to and within our familiar physical, cultural and emotional environment in which, he argues, we are in symbiosis.

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. For all of these reasons, Earth Emotions is likely to be on reading lists for students of environmental philosophy.

Another — "Environmental generational amnesia" describes how "each generation knows less about their bioregion. An essential book with some important insights into how we navigate and express our emotions in this age of climate emergency. 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.

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