Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World

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Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World

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His encouragement of patriotism, tribalism and regionalism seem to be in good faith, but also slip into the risk of being weaponised by eco-fascists. At this point, Macfarlane introduces us to two words that Albrecht has developed in the book “Earth Emotions”. 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. 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.

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. Albrecht steps up to meet the need to better express the evolving relationships between our sense of place, our emotions and our wider biophysical health. Philosopher Glenn Albrecht, in writing Earth Emotions, is creating a language that ties together humanity and our surrounding environment, both in the positive and negative. DOUBLE-DUTCH' moves - elegant communication like the steps which mesmerized me in Malcolm McLaren's famous track. How many funky neologisms based on latin and germanic roots does it take to make the rather obvious point that "nature destroyed feels bad" and "animism feels good"?

While some of the words mean little to me, either they aren't something I feel or the obscure etymology and formation meant they were hard to follow. It means a love of peculiar places, so it is about a strong sense of place, but infused with cultural and historical identity. I particularly enjoyed the chapter explaining 'Solastalgia', a word coined by Albrecht in 2003 to describe the 'homesickness you have at home' as the lands we live upon are degraded by forces (usually) outside of our control (think mining). It was a ‘thought bubble’ within a much larger discussion of evolution, sex, gender and intelligence and how to build on what we are … to what we want to be.

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 more of the uniqueness is understood in, for example, Australia, as a unique assemblage of plants, fungi, digging marsupials and soil, the more it can be appreciated. 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. What initially sounds like nothing more than a linear piece of life story becomes a fantastic tool to unlock the various threads of identity from the people and places which go to make the cumulative influences in Albrecht’s transition from childhood to adult life, and help to explain his emotional story – his values, attitudes, and how he interacts with people, places and the planet today. With the current and coming generations, "Generation Symbiocene," Albrecht sees reason for optimism.

His study helps us to better understand the traumatism felt, for example, when The Hunter Valley farmers saw their farming land converted into coal pits. 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.

With a new language and means of expression, a wider array of stories from diverse voices can hopefully be heard. How do we possibly process the overwhelming information about climate change, and how it will impact on the places we know?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.

I take on board everything you say about impatience for change (I suffer the same affliction to such an extent that I insisted my sister give her daughter the middle name ‘Patience’ to try to do something about it, after discovering it was the name of one of my great, great, great grandmothers). And indeed, the book does a good job of defining a whole suite of terms to describe various Earth emotions.Without a new ~scene "this Earth will be “sacrificed” and the Anthropocene will go cosmic, even universal". He argues that “Once a person realizes that the landscape they have before them is not replicated in even a general way elsewhere in the country or on their continent or even in the world, there is ample room for a positive Earth emotion based on rarity and uniqueness. There are two trees at the back of my neighbour’s garden that talk to me – and have done for almost 45 years. What we choose to do with the insights on a personal, on a community, and on a global level is another matter.



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