To Talk About the Anthropocene, We Need New Words

The “Bureau of Linguistic Reality” is coining them

Heidi Quante and Alicia Escott of the Bureau of Linguistic Reality

As any psychologist will tell you, a key part of grappling with your emotions is naming them.

So back in 2007 I was particularly struck when I learned of the word “solastalgia”. It was a neologism coined by the philosopher Glenn Albrecht, to give a name to a new emotion…