Climate emotions or eco-emotions?
Would it be better to use the formulation “climate emotion” or “eco-emotion”? This question surfaced again in relation to the Ecopsychepedia project , which is led by some very insightful Climate Psychology people . The ‘Pedia is a very promising project and I’m glad to participate in it. The question at hand is a complex one and I have been thinking about it a lot (see e.g. my recent article about climate emotions ). I think that both kinds of words are needed, and I’ll try here to explain my view. My broad definition of eco-emotions (sometimes called environmental emotions, and see also the Earth Emotions framework by Glenn Albrecht) is that they are emotions / feelings / affects which have been significantly evoked by ecological issues. There’s bound to be many factors which affect people’s emotions at any given moment, but it is very important to notice that ecological issues do cause and shape emotions. I define climate emotions as eco-emotions which are significantly re...