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Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World

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Maybe I’m just become too much of a hippy, or betraying that I’m someone who once flirted with the Quakers, but I don’t want to take on the personality of those that I’m ‘taking on’, especially when it comes to use of ‘masculine muscle’.

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. If you are going to go down the path of endorsing regional and local allegiance in a nature as well as culture context as part of your Utopia, but also keep bringing up how climate change will lead to mass migration, then you better have a really well-conceived philosophical defence system against the easy leap from "This is OUR land and people" to "This is OUR land and NOT YOURS, so go away". it is a bad thing and we only have to accept it because we can't change it, not because we agree with it?Author hopes our planet to exit Anthroposcene, because there can not be “good Anthropocene”; current ~scene is only gona lead humans to destruction and possible extinction. Albrecht, Glenn, Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World ( Ithaca, NY, 2019; online edn, Cornell Scholarship Online , 23 Jan. Imaginative tactics which seek to ‘trip up’ or embarrass those entrenched powers ranged against the symbiotic ethic are one thing – and Extinction Rebellion is an example of the dance moves which can be executed in this respect, but anything more brutish is ultimately futile. The most obvious, and strongest interest is in the lexicon itself, and how it interacts with my own pre-existing interest in issues to do with ‘place’ (a bastardised word if ever there was one in modern public policy-making); ‘the particular’ (the detail, the unique, the small things which seem to disappear each day with ever increasing homogeneity demanded by the dominant economic model); as well as with the environment more generally, and with local history, and how all manner of public policy splices through all of these at various levels. 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.

Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. This is a concept of great use in describing the range of experiences of people on the frontline of the climate crisis and is my key takeaway from this book.Earth Emotions' is an invitation to the reader to participate in the emergent global drama between the emotionally charged forces of creation and destruction. Topophobic: “Fear of entering a biophysical place” which might explain a lot of contemporary behaviour, especially when linked with a systematic fear of ecosystems and life as subsequent generations separate from nature and life (expressed as Ecophobia and Biophobia). And, unlike so many scientists, he does not describe those roads only with numbers, but with a new language of emotions — those now emerging from the tragedy and the possibility of the Earth. He established the now widely used and accepted concept of solastalgia, or the lived experience of negative environmental change.

There is a worry that new generations may mature into adults that have fear at the appearance of unexpectedness, so they more likely spend their time in climate controlled boxes and grow their ignorance to "otherness". This book has to be one of the weirdest books I have read in a long time, and the weirdest book I have read and enjoyed in even longer. 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. Solastalgia is the nostalgia (= homesickness) you have "when you are still located within your home environment". It does touch on wider concepts associated with ‘ Gaia’ Theory as formulated by James Lovelock and co-developed by Lynn Margulis in the 1970s (viewing the world and all the organisms in it as a single, self-regulating complex system); and more broadly, more diverse yearnings for some kind of secular spirituality, which might help bring about the symbiotic, more collaborative state of play Albrecht outlines.At this point, Macfarlane introduces us to two words that Albrecht has developed in the book “Earth Emotions”. Ultimately, the readers have to navigate their local landscape with all the pitfalls and challenges on their own. 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. It leads children to have little or no empathy (at all) for wilderness = places largely untouched my humans. For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management.

Psychoterratic’ is a term coined by Albrecht relating to states of our positive and negative wellbeing linked directly to the Earth and the environment. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more. 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.I strongly recommend this book to anybody, David, who enjoys more than just a getaway story for distraction. 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. I found the new terms fascinating and intriguing and after reading the book I still see them the same way. And 'GO-DUTCH' - splitting the bill equally, sharing experiences between those high profile clients I've had the joy to work with, and those more socially excluded, particularly young people.

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