Earth Emotions

New Words for a New World

De: Glenn A. Albrecht

Narrado por: Marlin May

As 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 21st 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 proposes a dramatic change from the current human-dominated 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.

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.

The book is published by Cornell University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

"Albrecht offers a framework within which to understand and acknowledge the dissociation of humans from the living world." (The Independent)

"In Earth Emotions, Albrecht seeks to provide a new lexicon of emotional terms." (Choice)

"Thorough, composed, and historically illuminative. Grounded and powerful in its message...." (Nick Stanger, Washington University)

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