Abstract
In 2019, a series of environmental disasters catapulted the issue
of climate change into the mass media.1
While the emergence of COVID19 in public discourse in early 2020 has shifted attention away from environmental movements in mainstream media forums, it has also populated a series of critical conversations in some print and online platforms
about intersections between the issues of climate change and the global
pandemic. What precisely do climate change and the global pandemic
have in common, for environmental feminists? Pursuing this question
resists the media tendency to compartmentalize disasters, which distracts from the systemic interconnection of crises. Scholars and activists have, of course, long pointed out the relationships between capitalism, environmental disasters, and human health.