'Sumbiotude’: a new word in the tiny (but growing) vocabulary for our emotional connection to the environment

I am a child of the Anthropocene, born in 1953. I have lived in a period of history also known as the “Great Acceleration” as huge negative change unfolded. 

A child of the Anthropocene.

While contemplating these changes, I have sensed, within humanity, a profound sense of emotional isolation. To help overcome the solitude, I have created the idea of sumbiotude, thinking and working in companionship with others, to reconnect to life. 

Being alive in this particular era, I have had the privilege of living through the rapid transition from a focus on that which is “obvious to the senses” to our new ways of rendering the invisible, visible. 

Read the story from The Conversation by an Honorary Associate with the School of Geosciences from the University of Sydney, Glenn Albrecht - “‘Sumbiotude’: a new word in the tiny (but growing) vocabulary for our emotional connection to the environment.”