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In recent years, the idea that the planet is the greatest beneficiary of crises affecting human life, such as epidemics and pandemics, has gained momentum in environmental discussions. This has strengthened the discourse according to which mankind is a "plague " that must be eradicated, a concept that has been spreading in our societies for decades, driven in many cases by political and economic elites worldwide, which gives way to the possibility of establishing ecofascist forms of power, by valuing radical practices such as eugenics as a way to confront the so-called anthropocene that has led to the environmental crisis, without leaving room to point out the real cause of marking a planetary geological era: capitalism, so it would be more correct to speak of capitalocene.
Keywords: Ecofascism, pandemic, anthropocene, Capitalocene, ecological crisis
INTRODUCTION
The situation arising from the current pandemic caused by the new coronavirus has been used to promote speeches that, under the supposed defense of nature, hide other interests, whether political or economic. During the last few months, the mass media has spread the idea that "the planet" is the great beneficiary of the global shutdown, due to the population confinement in most parts of the world as an attempt to stop the proliferation of the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2.
For example, on February 28, 2020, the BBC newspaper published an article entitled Coronavirus: the unexpected benefits of the covid-19 epidemic for the environment, where it mentions that among "the unexpected consequences of the coronavirus outbreak have been cleaner air and a reduction in gas emissions that contribute to climate change" (BBC, 2020, para. 1). And as a result of the closure of factories, the cancellation of thousands of flights and the reduction of public and private transport "there has been a drop of at least 25% in carbon dioxide emissions, according to calculations by Lauri Myllyvirta, of the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), based in the United States"; in addition to a sharp drop in the demand for oil, until it depreciated sharply on the stock markets (Ibid., para.3).
Despite the fact that this article is not focused on the global situation surrounding Covid-19, events such as those previously mentioned have given rise to a discourse...