Solastalgia
This is the word for the distress caused by environmental change. Disasters can be a big part of this. The term “Solastalgia” was first coined by Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht in 2005.
Similar in some ways to Nostalgia - the longing for home or place of comfort, which is no longer there; Solastalgia1 is “a term created to describe feelings which arise in people when an environment changes so much that it negatively affects an individual's quality of life. Such changed environments may include droug…
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