Jan 31
7 min read
To Talk About the Anthropocene, We Need New Words
The “Bureau of Linguistic Reality” is coining them
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…
