Expanding Our Lexicon to Reflect the Realities of Climate Change

Teuchnikskreis-- the "false belief that creating technology will get us out of our mess, when in fact, our mess is cultural." Was my favorite new word created to deal with, and understand, Climate Change. My favorite because I feel that technology cannot save the day. In fact, technology helped put us in this mess we are in, and yet we continue to see it as a panacea, when it is the exact opposite. Even if we came up with a strategy to save ourselves we cannot agree on anything. 

the new word comes from The Bureau of Linguistical Reality:esatablished in 2014 to develop words to help speakers communicate about the dramatic changes climate change is creating.  It adheres to Linguistic Relativity (Sapir–Whorf hypothesis), which holds that “the structure of a language affects the ways in which its respective speakers conceptualize their world, i.e. their world view or otherwise influences their cognitive processes.”

The group embraces, and sees itself as a result of,   the 'Anthropocene" (refers to our current ecological epoch that replaced the Holocene), which is understandable, because we are seriously messing up our Mother (Earth). The Anthropocene developed because human activity had begun to dominate the Earth in such a major way, as other epics like the Ice Age did. Here is a post I did on it back in 2016 The Anthropocene Epoch and the Conquest of Mother Earth.

The establishment of the Bureau of Languages puts an exclamation on climate change and how pervasive and overwhelming it has become. Basically, our Mother is in deep trouble and it is getting worse. The fact that we have to make up new words to describe what is going on is a very bad omen.

Here are a few more new words,

Psychic Corpus Dissonance--A term to express the conflict between mind and body that occurs when a person experiences unusually warm weather during a time that has historically been considered winter.  In this state the body experiences ecstasy to be in unusually warm weather while, simultaneously, the mind experiences worry and concern that weather patterns are deeply amiss, often resulting in a sensation akin to guilt or guilty pleasure.

Shadowtime--A parallel timescale that follows one around throughout day to day experience of regular time. Shadowtime manifests as a feeling of living in two distinctly different temporal scales simultaneously, or acute consciousness of the possibility that the near future will be drastically different than the present.

Quieseed-- A seed that due to social trauma stays consciously dormant not out of oppression, but rather due to a deep intuition which senses not to seed until it finds itself in a fertile, fecund environment.

Gwilt-- To cause wilting in plants by not providing proper horticultural care out of concern for water consumption, especially during a time of drought. The feeling of regret and responsibility for its wilting. The accompanying compensatory feeling caused by watering said plants and experiencing further gwilt for not practicing water conservation.