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Book SynopsisAs climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are overwhelming people the world over. 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 examines our positive and negative Earth emotions. It explains the author''s concept of solastalgia and other well-known eco-emotions such as biophilia and topophilia. Albrecht introduces us to the many new words needed to describe the full range of our emotional responses to the emergent state of the world. 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. To do so, he pro
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Albrecht offers a framework within which to understand and acknowledge the dissociation of humans from the living world. With a new language and means of expression, a wider array of stories from diverse voices can hopefully be heard.
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In Earth Emotions, Albrecht seeks to provide a new lexicon of emotional terms. 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.
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Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Sumbiography: A Summation of My Green Past
2. Solastalgia: The Homesickness You Have at Home
3. The Psychoterratic in the Anthropocene: Negative Earth Emotions
4. The Psychoterratic in the Symbiocene: Positive Earth Emotions
5. Gaia and the Ghedeist: Secular Spirituality
6. Generation Symbiocene: Creating the New World
Conclusion
Glossary of Psychoterratic Terms
Notes
References
Index
