EARTH EMOTIONS

ISBN: 9781501715228 Géneros: Sinópsis: 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 twentyfirst centuryEarth Emotions examines our positive and negative Earth emotions It explains the author39s concept of solastalgia and other wellknown ecoemotions 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 millenniaold biophilialove of lifefor our home planet To do so he proposes a dramatic change from the current humandominated 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 SymbioceneWith the current and coming generations Generation Symbiocene Albrecht sees reason for optimism 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