{"id":7391,"date":"2019-07-04T12:49:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T17:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=7391"},"modified":"2019-07-04T15:01:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T20:01:34","slug":"tonic-of-the-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=7391","title":{"rendered":"Tonic of the Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There Is a Word for the Trauma Caused by Distance from Nature<\/h3>\n
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More Evidence of the Need for Nature in the City<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

By Ephrat Livni, Quartz<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

February 24, 2019<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got problems. Perhaps more than you know. Apart from all the usual woes\u2014work, relationships, money, time\u2014the civilized life may also be causing you psychological trauma.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Disconnection from nature can be bad for our mental health. But there was no name for this particular malaise until Australian sustainability professor Glenn Albrecht coined the term psychoterratic<\/a>, creating the beginning of a vocabulary to discuss the relationship between mental health and environment.<\/p>\n

Since then, he\u2019s thought up a whole lexicon. In May, Albrecht\u2019s book, Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World<\/a>,<\/i> will be published by Cornell University Press. It includes gems like the word ecoagnosy<\/a>, a term created to describe environmental ignorance or indifference to the ecology. Then there\u2019s solastalgia,<\/a>\u00a0the psychic pain of climate change and missing a home that\u2019s transforming before your eyes.<\/p>\n

The Healing Power of Nature<\/h4>\n

Read the rest of this article in Quartz<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Image courtesy of Quartz<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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