ENVIRONMENT, ANTHROPOCENE AND DISEASES: (RE)OPENING PANDORA'S BOX

Abstract

Human activities have caused environmental changes on a planetary scale, not yet fully known by Science, causing new proposals for temporal periodisation, establishment and maintenance of biotic elements to be suggested as a possibility to better represent these dynamics, replacing the concepts still traditionally used. This article aims to make a theoretical reflection on the Environment, based on these conceptual proposals, applying them to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. For that, national and international articles were consulted, on which we carried out a critical analysis. The results indicate the domination of a world increasingly transformed by society, where crisis have been stablished and greatly threatened humanity, demanding new integrated forms of relationship, management and use of resources of what we traditionally call Nature, both in protected areas environmentally, as in the productive areas of the rural zone and in the cities, where the world population is increasingly concentrated, especially in underdeveloped countries of the tropical zones, where the high social inequalities and the expansion of economic activities to the areas that concentrate most of the The planet's biodiversity, still largely unknown, establishes a situation that favours the emergence of new diseases.