Topophobic: “Fear of entering a biophysical place” which might explain a lot of contemporary behaviour, especially when linked with a systematic fear of ecosystems and life as subsequent generations separate from nature and life (expressed as Ecophobia and Biophobia). 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.

This book has to be one of the weirdest books I have read in a long time, and the weirdest book I have read and enjoyed in even longer. Despite the threat that the book overcomplicates its own language, Albrecht keeps his argument relevant and justifies each term well. The benefit of biophilic experiences, it is argued, is that they can also increase health and well-being.With the current and coming generations, "Generation Symbiocene," Albrecht sees reason for optimism. A world that is upset by the trauma of climate change and environmental crises, but also a world optimistic. e. separating human cultures and all the xenophobia that comes with that) nor do we get a convincing argument as to how and why we can block such implications. Glenn suggest that during this massive environmental change and due to human desolation and separation from (biological) nature we are entering "the age of solastalgia" and "emotional death" (with respect to nature). The book begins with the negative in concepts like "solastalgia", "the existential and lived experience of negative environmental change" (p38), then follows with the affirming in concepts like "Symbiocene" or a future epoch of mutualism between people and their environment.

The book culminates in the affirmation of positive emotional relationships to the Earth for current and future generations. While often Albrecht's writing is intelligent and deals with nuance he also at times comes across as naïve. It has helped reinforce to me why social, economic, political, cultural and historical factors are important in this respect, but now better understanding that they are informed by environment and nature at their heart.I found the new terms fascinating and intriguing and after reading the book I still see them the same way. I’ve long described such feelings in an almost physical sense – almost like I’m subject to a long-standing, low-level dose of electrical current – no ‘shock’, just mild ‘unease’. So many snatched moments when we grab this emotion, especially out on walks, for example, along a beach, or listening to birdsong. Then the term "Jihad" is thrown around in bizarre ways, and the woes of masculinity in the 21st century are solved by channeling the "ALPHA" MALE SENTIMENTS into "GREEN MUSCLE" for "WW3". Earth Emotions' is an invitation to the reader to participate in the emergent global drama between the emotionally charged forces of creation and destruction.

Author hopes our planet to exit Anthroposcene, because there can not be “good Anthropocene”; current ~scene is only gona lead humans to destruction and possible extinction. Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. A book for our time, which offers optimistic possibilities to address our earth emotions now and into the future. Symbiocene’ is characterised in terms of social organisation ‘by human intelligence that replicates the symbiotic and mutually reinforcing life-reproducing forms and processes found in living systems…. When I did move back home, I was desolate to discover the ‘big tree’ that we used to race to at the end of the street had been felled.As a result, this will have to lead to a ‘ Sumbiocracy’ – new forms of mutually beneficial government. Since most things are animate, it shapes the way that the people not only relate to each other, but to the world around them. That being said, many mainstream scientists don’t even yet accept that we have entered the ‘Anthropocene’, preferring instead to rely on the previous classification of ‘ Holocene’, negating the overwhelming, exponentially increasing impact of human endeavour on the planet’s finite resources and life support systems. Sumbiocentric: “Taking into account the centrality of the process of symbiosis in all of our deliberations on human affairs”.

However, I’m not so convinced when it touches on other political or activist strategies for change which at times seemed to give a green light for ‘ends justifying the means’, when the whole ethos of the symbiocene should surely be to ‘ do as you would be done by’, and live and breathe the life it advocates. Solastalgia is the nostalgia (= homesickness) you have "when you are still located within your home environment". There is a worry that new generations may mature into adults that have fear at the appearance of unexpectedness, so they more likely spend their time in climate controlled boxes and grow their ignorance to "otherness". Defending themselves against charges of inaction or incompetence, the same politician responds in a monotone voice, from a pre-scripted reply that “we’re straining every sinew”.For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. Particularly in evidence in the year running up to the run-up to the onset of the pandemic with people like Greta Thunberg and movements like Extinction Rebellion – and not set to evaporate anytime soon. My grandad, Frank Holland, died in 2014, and since he and my Nan were not able to have any boys, I wanted to keep their name and ethos going.