Solastalgia
5 min readJul 20, 2023
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; Solastalgia is “a term created to describe feelings which arise in people when an environment changes so much that it negatively affects an…
