Język lodu, wody i łez. Żałoba klimatyczna jako empatyczna świadomość w dobie antropocenu
The Language of Ice, Water, and Tears: Climate Mourning as an Empathetic Awareness of the Anthropocene

Summary/Abstract: Climate change equals ecological loss. The language of the Anthropocene is thus slowly becoming the language of mourning – climate grief felt in relation to experienced or anticipated environmental losses (Cunsolo). Its expression is found in symbolic glacier funerals, during which mourners empathically extend the concept of grief to non-human entities. By analyzing the role of the Ok glacier’s funeral, and the discourse around mourning ecological losses, the author attempts to answer the question about the social potential of climate grief as a catalyst for change.

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