This book captured my interest when it was introduced to me during Positive Psychology module in university. It means a love of peculiar places, so it is about a strong sense of place, but infused with cultural and historical identity.

These and other negative Earth emotions obviously lead to various mental and physical issues as well. Meteoranxiety: Created by Albrecht, this term is one that was particularly apposite prior to the pandemic, and it will continue to be so. 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. The increasingly pervasive feeling of sadness and loss for a world that’s being irreversibly altered".A world that is upset by the trauma of climate change and environmental crises, but also a world optimistic.

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.Without a new ~scene "this Earth will be “sacrificed” and the Anthropocene will go cosmic, even universal".

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. What had been a fairly clear and compelling statement about symbiotic life (with more neologisms than necessary or helpful) unravels into a mess. 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. 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). We have taken words for granted, abused their use, and in many cases, they have become meaningless, yet we have a growing number of feelings, or circumstances connected with our relationship with the world around us for which it is difficult to find words which do them justice.

Earth Emotions speak about current century and newly descriptive terms help to understand mostly explainable emotions and how psyche and body connects with Earth, moreover how climate change affects mental health. it is a bad thing and we only have to accept it because we can't change it, not because we agree with it?