Albrecht steps up to meet the need to better express the evolving relationships between our sense of place, our emotions and our wider biophysical health.

Part of Macfarlane’s book which most captivated me was where he looks at language, and the challenge to get beyond the literal – for example, the ‘language of plants’, rather than just the language that is used to speak ‘of plants’. The book promotes an antidote to the Anthropocene in the form of the 'Symbiocene', a future era where positive earth emotions will flourish. For all of these reasons, Earth Emotions is likely to be on reading lists for students of environmental philosophy. Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide.And indeed, the book does a good job of defining a whole suite of terms to describe various Earth emotions. 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’. Meteoranxiety: Created by Albrecht, this term is one that was particularly apposite prior to the pandemic, and it will continue to be so. So many snatched moments when we grab this emotion, especially out on walks, for example, along a beach, or listening to birdsong. The increasingly pervasive feeling of sadness and loss for a world that’s being irreversibly altered".

He is also a map-maker: he names the roads ahead, the dead-ends, the detours, and potential destinations. This book captured my interest when it was introduced to me during Positive Psychology module in university. 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.Since most things are animate, it shapes the way that the people not only relate to each other, but to the world around them. 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.

The main criticism for this book, which is primarily a eco-psychology overview of climate change, is it doesn't empower the readers to go in the real world and create a wave of positive eco-psychology around us.Glenn Albrecht is one of the most important eco-philosophers of our time, though the term 'eco-philosopher' may be too narrow. His encouragement of patriotism, tribalism and regionalism seem to be in good faith, but also slip into the risk of being weaponised by eco-fascists. 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.

My impatience for change does show at times, but my Green Muscle ideas is mainly motivated by the huge toll that Earth Protectors, particularly Indigenous people, are experiencing as they are intimidated and murdered. He argues that “Once a person realizes that the landscape they have before them is not replicated in even a general way elsewhere in the country or on their continent or even in the world, there is ample room for a positive Earth emotion based on rarity and uniqueness. The book also proposed alternative green world where positive eco-psychologcial responses could be generated. Language extinction goes hand in hand with endemic landscape and biota extinction", therefore Glenn sees the need for new words that describe new emotions.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…. But the question I have now is if it’s really the new terminology that we lack to finally feel motivated enough to take actual action in battling climate change? Our lecturer referred to it a lot and used many of the words introduced in the book to emphasise how interrelated are the concepts of nature connectedness and mental wellbeing.