While often Albrecht's writing is intelligent and deals with nuance he also at times comes across as naïve. This book captured my interest when it was introduced to me during Positive Psychology module in university. Psychoterratic’ is a term coined by Albrecht relating to states of our positive and negative wellbeing linked directly to the Earth and the environment. as obsolete in light of our new, enlightened understanding and knowledge of the above mentioned changes and situations.

Just as a botonist before newly discovered plants, Albrecht needs more suitable, more specific lexicon to the familiar generic ones. Men, women and all other genders can use their ‘Green Muscle’ in non-violent ways to support the movement into the Symbiocene, especially where hostile opposition is already a serious consideration. With a new language and means of expression, a wider array of stories from diverse voices can hopefully be heard.Defending themselves against charges of inaction or incompetence, the same politician responds in a monotone voice, from a pre-scripted reply that “we’re straining every sinew”. In terms of helping us better use language to understand how we feel about, and explore and explain our relationship with our planet and the places we live in and shape, and to equip us to make better connections, Glenn A. We need this creation of a hopeful vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we can extract ourselves out of environmental desolation and reignite our millennia-old biophilia―love of life―for our home planet.

The emotional resonance of his work was strong, and I wanted to discover more about it – both his method, and his thinking.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. Biophilia: an older term, first deployed by Eric Fromm in 1964, to mean a love of life, and a reverence for everything in humanity that enhances life and growth in nature, establishing it as an ethical good. That being said, many mainstream scientists don’t even yet accept that we have entered the ‘Anthropocene’, preferring instead to rely on the previous classification of ‘ Holocene’, negating the overwhelming, exponentially increasing impact of human endeavour on the planet’s finite resources and life support systems. There is a worry that new generations may mature into adults that have fear at the appearance of unexpectedness, so they more likely spend their time in climate controlled boxes and grow their ignorance to "otherness".

Both sets of emotions are needed for the survival and the flourishing of the species, however, we live in an epoch where the forces of destruction are overwhelming positive or creative emotions. Without a new ~scene "this Earth will be “sacrificed” and the Anthropocene will go cosmic, even universal".His study helps us to better understand the traumatism felt, for example, when The Hunter Valley farmers saw their farming land converted into coal pits. e. separating human cultures and all the xenophobia that comes with that) nor do we get a convincing argument as to how and why we can block such implications. By unpacking all of that at first hand in an almost autoethnographic fashion, it helps with his wider ‘psychoterratic’ mission. For all of these reasons, Earth Emotions is likely to be on reading lists for students of environmental philosophy. The book promotes an antidote to the Anthropocene in the form of the 'Symbiocene', a future era where positive earth emotions will flourish.