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• We suffer when we withdraw from nature
Australian professor Glenn Albrecht, director of the Institute of Sustainability and Technology Policy at Murdoch University, has coined the term solastalgia. He combined the Latin word solacium (comfort — as in solace) and the Greek root – algia (pain) to form solastalgia, which he defines as “the pain experienced when there is recognition that the place where one resides and that one loves is under immediate assault.”
Sunrise over Lake Pinaroo in Sturt National Park, outback Australia. Photograph: Ashley Whitworth/Alamy