‘One of the penalties of an ecological education, ‘ wrote Aldo Leopold, ‘is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.’ As climate change and other environmental degradations become more evident, experts predict that an increasing number of people will suffer emotional and psychological distress as a result. Many are feeling these effects already. In the pages of Solastalgia, they will find a source of companionship, inspiration, and advice.
The concept of solastalgia comes from the Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht, who describes it as ‘the homesickness we feel while still at home.’ It’s the pain and longing we feel as we realize the world immediately around us is changing, with our love for that world serving as a catalyst for action on its behalf.
This powerful anthology brings together thirty-four writers—educators, journalists, poets, and scientists—to share their emotions in the face of environmental crisis. They share their solastalgia, their beloved places, their vulnerability, their stories, their vision of what we can create.
Table of Content
Foreword: From Moping to Solastalgia
Acknowledgments
Introduction
What If She Had Lived?
On Elegy
Two Hearts, Two Minds
Grief and Fire
Other Rookeries
A Shared Lament
Elegy at the Edge of Infinity
Blue
Whistler of the North
The Strangest Sea
Memory as Survival
What you Studyin’: An Environmental Statement
A Return to Feeling
Rage, Rage Against the Dying
Why I Write for Birds
The Practice of Anger in a Warming World
The Dying Elm
A New Word to Describe New Feelings
Affirming Abundance
Soliphilia in Beaverland
Wild Lessons from Poisoned Water
Sing Back
The Imprint Theory of Childhood
Eyes of the World
Choosing a Different Future
How Do You Feel Today?
One Path to Solastalgia
Step-by-Step Instructions
How to Love a Burning World
This Will Be
On Time
Why Turn Inward Just as the Planet Needs Us Most?
Smoke, Cracked Corn, and a Helicopter Rescue
Fireflies
Contributors
About the author
Paul Bogard is Associate Professor of English at Hamline University and the author of The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light.
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