Climate Change and Covid-19
Structure and System in a Future Tense
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21665771 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Todd Dufresne (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Pages | 150-157 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1206-0143 • E-ISSN: 1916-0194 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/topia-018 |
| OpenAlex | W3113329616 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
There is widespread confusion about the connection between COVID-19 and the larger problem of climate change. This article investigates the connection between the pandemic and climate crises in three ways. First, it examines how impactful emission reductions inspired by COVID-19 have helped prevent future climate catastrophe. Second, it shows why this pandemic is not a climate emergency at all but a routine feature of history. However, the article insists that these crises are connected by the anthropogenic influence of capitalism. Third, it examines ways that the pandemic has shifted beliefs that could be harnessed to help prevent the worst impacts of climate catastrophe, which remains the biggest problem to ever face life on earth
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Capitalism · Climate change · Confusion · Environmental ethics · Geography · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change and Health Impacts · COVID-19 impact on air quality · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · History · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Geology · Virology
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |