New Words for a New World
by Glenn A. Albrecht
- Author(s)
- Glenn A. Albrecht
- Publication
- Ithaca ; London : Cornell University, 2019
- Scope
- 240 Pages, illustrated, 22.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781501715228
As climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are overwhelming. In this maelstrom of emotion, solastalgia, the homesickness you have when you are still at home, has become, writes Glenn A. Albrecht, one of the defining emotions of the twenty-first century.Earth Emotions explains the author's concept of solastalgia and other well-known eco-emotions such as biophilia and topophilia. We need the creation of a hopeful vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we can extract ourselves out of environmental desolation. To do so, he proposes a dramatic change from the current ‘Anthropocene’ era to one that will be founded, materially, ethically, politically, and spiritually on the revolution in thinking being delivered by contemporary symbiotic science. Albrecht names this period the Symbiocene, and argues that the battle between the forces of destruction and the forces of creation will be won by Generation Symbiocene. Earth Emotions presents an ethical and emotional odyssey for that victory.
- Person as subject
- Kate MacDowell
- Keywords
- symbiocene , emotions
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 4: Antropoceen
- Remarks
- Includes glossary of Psychoterratic Terms, Notes, Index, References
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