ABSTRACT

The 17th Biennial INPE Meeting was scheduled to take place from 28 to 31 July 2020 at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Of course, there is something ironic about convening a conference on the environment and sustainability that would require presenters to utilize unsustainable modes of transport in order to participate. As it turned out, because of the outbreak and rapid global spread of a new Corona virus, the conference was cancelled and replaced by an online event held on 7 and 8 November 2020, both premieres in the history of INPE. The essays collected in this Special Issue will hopefully contribute towards the unmasking and undoing of the various kinds of denialism that have held us in its grip and that continues to thwart attempts to establish a sane and morally sustainable set of relationships between us, human beings, and other animals and the animate and inanimate environment.

摘要

第17届两年一度的INPE会议定于2020年7月28日至31日在墨西哥国立自治大学举行。当然，召开一次有关环境与可持续性的会议具有讽刺意味，这要求演讲者利用不可持续的交通方式来参与。事实证明，由于一种新的Corona病毒的爆发和在全球的迅速传播，该会议被取消，取而代之的是2020年11月7日至8日举行的在线活动，这两个活动都是INPE历史上的首次亮相。本期特刊收集的文章有望为揭露和消除使我们束手无策的各种否定主义做出贡献，并继续阻碍建立我们，人类，人类之间理智和道德上可持续的关系的尝试。