The paper discusses ecological grief as a particular affective phenomenon. First, it offers an overview of several philosophical accounts of grief, acknowledging the heterogeneity and complexity of the experience that responds to particular personal points of importance, concern and one’s identity; the loss triggering grief represents a blow to these. I then argue that ecological grief is equally varied and personal: responding to what the grieving person understands as a loss severe enough to present intelligibly a degradation of her life and the world, to their meaningfulness or even sustainability. More specifically, both personal and ecological grief may manifest in an eroded sense of the future as a space in which one would invest oneself with plans, projects, ideas, desires, and endeavours. On the other hand, personal grief is, in some cases, conceptualised as having embedded the inherent possibility to come to closure or “move on” (e.g., by marrying again), while with ecological grief, the intelligibility of overcoming (replacing) the loss may be, depending on its scale, severely limited. I argue that this erosion of the future need not take the shape of paralysing sadness but rather of a disruption of taking some options of projecting oneself into the future seriously or as real.

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远距离观察的生态悲伤

本文将生态悲伤作为一种特殊的情感现象进行讨论。首先，它概述了几种关于悲伤的哲学解释，承认对特定个人重要点、关注点和身份的体验的异质性和复杂性；引发悲伤的损失对这些人来说是一个打击。然后我认为生态悲伤同样是多种多样的和个人的：对悲伤的人所理解的损失作出反应，这种损失严重到足以清楚地呈现她的生活和世界的退化，其意义甚至可持续性。更具体地说，个人和生态的悲伤都可能表现为对未来的一种被侵蚀的感觉，未来是一个人们可以投入计划、项目、想法、愿望和努力的空间。另一方面，在某些情况下，个人悲伤被概念化为嵌入了结束或“继续前进”（例如，再次结婚）的固有可能性，而生态悲伤则可以理解为克服（取代）根据其规模，损失可能会受到严格限制。我认为，这种对未来的侵蚀不一定要表现为令人瘫痪的悲伤，而是会破坏人们认真或真实地对待未来的一些选择。