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What's in a Pandemic? COVID-19 and the Anthropocene

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  • Manuel Arias-Maldonado

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After the viral outbreak that hit populations across the planet in the first half of 2020, it has been argued that the coronavirus pandemic can be described as a quintessential phenomenon of the Anthropocene, i.e. the result of a particular stage of socionatural relations in which wild habitats are invaded and anthropogenic climate change creates the conditions for the emergence of more frequent viral pathogens. Likewise, it has also been argued that the pandemic is an event that shares structural features with climate change itself and, consequently, offers some lessons about how best to fight the latter. I will consider these arguments, offering an alternative view of the relationship between the pandemic and the Anthropocene. I will argue that although the pandemic should not be primarily seen as an event of the Anthropocene, it can end up reinforcing the Anthropocene frame for several reasons.

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  • Manuel Arias-Maldonado, 2023. "What's in a Pandemic? COVID-19 and the Anthropocene," Environmental Values, , vol. 32(1), pages 45-63, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envval:v:32:y:2023:i:1:p:45-63
    DOI: 10.3197/096327122X16452897197793
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