How can we reframe the current planetary crisis to find ways for decisive and life-changing collective action?
The Amazon region of Ecuador, at the centre of two crises—COVID-19 and a major oil spill—but also home to a long history of indigenous resistance, offers some answers.
In this post on the ISS blog, BlISS, Dr Jacqueline Gaybor and Professor Wendy Harcourt attempt to reframe the current planetary crisis that encompasses increasingly visible global diseases in order to find ways for decisive and life-changing collective action, focusing their investigations on the Amazon region of Ecuador.
Read their blog post: The COVID-19 pandemic and oil spills in the Ecuadorian Amazon: The confluence of two crises
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