Glenn Albrecht is an Australian philosopher and ecologist who was for many years Professor of Sustainability at Murdoch University in Western Australia and is now an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. In his book Earth Emotions (2019), he argues that we have lost awareness of our deep and long-standing connection to nature and that we no longer have the words to…
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Glenn Albrecht: Sumbiocracy
Glenn Albrecht (born 1953) is an Australian environmental philosopher, best known for coining the neologisms solastalgia and symbiocene. He is a theoretical and practical researcher on the relationship between ecosystems and human health. He is a pioneer in the field of research into "psychoterratic" or Earth-related mental health conditions - the concept of "solastalgia". He characterizes solastalgia as a form of emotional or existential anxiety caused by environmental changes;…