Glenn A. Albrecht: Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World, Cornell University Press 2019 https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501715228/earth-emotions/
Earth Emotions examines our positive and negative Earth emotions. It explains the author’s concept of solastalgia and other well-known eco-emotions 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.
Panu Pihkala: “Toward a Taxonomy of Climate Emotions, Frontiers in Climate” (vol 3, Jan 2022)
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/climate/articles/10.3389/fclim.2021.738154/full
There is a growing evidence that emotions shape people’s reactions to the climate crisis in profound but complex ways. Climate emotions are related to resilience, climate action, and psychological well-being and health. However, there is currently a lack of research about the array of various climate emotions. There is also a need for more integration with general research about emotions. This article conducts a preliminary exploration of the taxonomy of climate emotions, based on literature reviews and philosophical discussion.
