Solastalgia. Noun.

Derived from nostalgia, Solastalgia is a form of homesickness one gets when one is still at home, but the environment has been altered and feels unfamiliar. The term is specifically referencing change caused by chronic change agents like climate change or mining. Used primarily to describe the negative psychological effect of chronic environmental destruction on an individual's homeland, or the place they call home. The condition is often “exacerbated by a sense of powerlessness or lack of control over the unfolding change process”.

— Glenn Albrecht

Solastalgia is the one term not created by the Bureau, though lifted up by them as a primary example of the need and power for neologisms. In 2005 Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht coined solastalgia (a combination of solacium (Latin): comfort and -algia (Greek): pain, suffering, grief, to name the feelings of emotional and existential pain caused by environmental change and destruction. Albrecht describes it as, "the homesickness you have when you are still at home" and your home environment is changing in ways you find distressing.

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