Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World

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Another — "Environmental generational amnesia" describes how "each generation knows less about their bioregion. Apart from the emotion typology which is at least fun and fruitful regardless of how stringent it may be (similar to how personality typologies tend to be bullshit but at the same time very fun and fruitful), the outlook of the book is just confusing and, I think, confused. Albrecht, Glenn, Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World ( Ithaca, NY, 2019; online edn, Cornell Scholarship Online , 23 Jan.

Ultimately, the readers have to navigate their local landscape with all the pitfalls and challenges on their own. 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. 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. Earth Emotions' is an invitation to the reader to participate in the emergent global drama between the emotionally charged forces of creation and destruction.He could have engaged further in what he meant by these topics and I think throughout there is a slight risk of being misinterpreted or manipulated that is inherent in such a word heavy book with so many changing meanings and new ideas.

But the question I have now is if it’s really the new terminology that we lack to finally feel motivated enough to take actual action in battling climate change? Biophilia: an older term, first deployed by Eric Fromm in 1964, to mean a love of life, and a reverence for everything in humanity that enhances life and growth in nature, establishing it as an ethical good. Terrafuric: Coined by Albrecht, “the extreme anger unleashed within those who can clearly see the self-destructive tendencies in the current forms of industrial-technological society and feel they must protest and act to change its direction. Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide.Both sets of emotions are needed for the survival and the flourishing of the species, however, we live in an epoch where the forces of destruction are overwhelming positive or creative emotions.

Each word or term it added to our lexicon did more than add a label – it unravelled more understanding and scope for reflection about our relationship with where we live on so many levels, and as a result, how things just might be done differently. My impatience for change does show at times, but my Green Muscle ideas is mainly motivated by the huge toll that Earth Protectors, particularly Indigenous people, are experiencing as they are intimidated and murdered.The book promotes an antidote to the Anthropocene in the form of the 'Symbiocene', a future era where positive earth emotions will flourish. Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases.