Problem
Psychological stress of environmental decline
Other Names:
SolastalgiaPsycho-terratic disorders
Eco-paralysis
Climate grief
Ecoanxiety
Global dread
Eco-nostalgia
Environmental despair
Nature:
Public concern over environmental change is at a record high. Doomsday scenarios are capturing the headlines at an accelerating rate.
Background:
To balance the term ‘topophilia’, a love of place, environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht opposes ‘solastalgia’ — the desolate feeling associated with the chronic decline of a homescape. Solastalgia names the emotions we have at the loss of species and habitats through climate change and other environmental changes
Incidence:
A Yale survey (Climate Change in the American Mind: March 2018) shows that 62% of participants said they were "somewhat" worried when it comes to climate. That number is up from 49% in 2010. The number of those who claimed to be "very" worried was 21%, which is double the rate of a similar study conducted in 2015.
Broader Problems:
Unhealthy anxietyNostalgiaExtreme sadnessFashionable mental disordersEmotional strain Narrower Problems:
Nature deficit disorder (NDD)Unmeaningful relationships to place Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
E: Emanations of other problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST