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Solastalgia = Distress or melancholy caused by a significant change to one’s local environment // Angustia o melancolía causada por un cambio significativo en el entorno local de uno
Also see: Symbiocene
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Birds Expanding the Human Imagination – BirdNote – Glenn Albrecht grew up in a “bird lover’s paradise” in western Australia. But when he saw how coal mining displaced communities, polluted the air and water, and decimated bird populations, Glenn lacked the words for his emotions. He created the concept of ‘solastalgia’ to describe the pain of witnessing environmental harm where you live. He imagines a possible future era, called the ‘Symbiocene,’ when human activity will, once again, be fully interconnected with the ebb and flow of the rest of nature and therefore cause no more destruction of life on Earth.
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Have you ever felt solastalgia?
How to Overcome Solastalgia, the Feeling of Profound Loss of Your Environment – Scientific American
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Solastalgia = Combination of the Latin word solacium (comfort) and the Greek root –algia (pain), which he defined as “the pain experienced when there is recognition that the place where one resides and that one loves is under immediate assault . . . a form of homesickness one gets when one is still at ‘home.’
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