Solastalgia
Environmental destruction is spawning numerous neologisms as we try to come to terms with our eco grief and make sense of what is happening to wildlife. Some are described in Lucy Jones’s timely new book Losing Eden (Allen Lane), including ‘solastalgia’, coined by the Australian environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht, actually over a decade ago. A combination of ‘solace’ and ‘nostalgia’, it expresses how upset and powerless we feel when a much-loved place that used to bring us solace is destroyed. Ben Hoare