It’s part of the language of environmental activism in the global south. But living in a UK city, I’d never connected with it, says Guardian environment correspondent Damien Gayle
website lists its symptoms, traits, causes and treatments. Several concept albums and a Spotify playlist are dedicated to the idea. And last month, I was asked to join a panel discussion about it in London.
‘Roger Hallam, Extinction Rebellion’s founding strategist, blamed the failure of his organic smallholding in Wales for his decision to study protest at King’s College London.
Nonetheless, solastalgia, it occurred to me, has been a part of the rhetoric of UK environmental activism. Activists with Extinction Rebellion articulated something like it to me back in 2019, evoking, when I asked them why they had taken part in protests, images of “the dawn chorus dwindling to a solo”.
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