#solastalgia

"Solastalgia"

Do you ever try to imagine your future and catch yourself assuming that climate change will just...stop being a thing at some nebulous and ill-defined point in time? And that you'll be able to live your golden years back in "reality", where you don't have mass extinctions or geopolitical chaos or skies turning piss-yellow with wildfire smoke every summer or the need to aggressively scale-back energy consumption and radically alter modes of living? And then you remember that, even if all greenhouse gas emissions stopped tomorrow, there's still at least several centuries of warming already queued up down the pike? And the fact that the world you grew up in and for which all of your formative experiences prepared you is gone forever and will never come back just slams into you like a sledgehammer in the nadgers?

⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖊𝖙 𝖎𝖘 𝖇𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖌. #deleteyourfacebook

«Solastalgia» deriva dall’unione di «solace» e «nostalgia», quindi nostalgia del conforto. È un termine che arriva dalla pratica clinica e psicologica e indica il senso di malessere che ci invade quando l’ambiente che ci circonda è stato violato, distrutto, abbandonato.