You know the postman said just the same to me this morning.
On 7 August 2012 21:51, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> With a new psychoterratic language to describe and “re-place” our emotions
> and feelings, powerful transformative forces are unleashed. Solastalgia is
> fixated on the melancholic, but it is also a foundation for action that
> will negate it. There is a positive side to psychoterratic classifications,
> one where positive earth emotions and feelings such as biophilia,
> topophilia, ecophilia, soliphilia and eutierria can be used to counter the
> negative and destructive.
>
> [Glenn Albrecht is professor of sustainability at Murdoch University in
> Perth, Western Australia. He is an environmental philosopher with both
> theoretical and applied interests in the relationship between ecosystem and
> human health. He has pioneered the research domain of 'psychoterratic' or
> earth related mental health conditions with the concept of 'solastalgia' or
> the lived experience of negative environmental change, now internationally
> recognised and used.]
>
> The Conversation <[log in to unmask]>
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