The COVID-19 pandemic has coincided with a powerful upsurge in antiracist activism in the United States, linking many forms and consequences of racism to public and environmental health. This commentary develops the concept of eco-pandemic injustice to explain interrelationships between the pandemic and socioecological systems, demonstrating how COVID-19 both reveals and deepens structural inequalities that form along lines of environmental health. Using Pellow’s critical environmental justice theory, we examine how the crisis has made more visible and exacerbated links between racism, poverty, and health while providing opportunities to enact change through collective embodied health movements. We describe new collaborations and the potential for meaningful opportunities at the intersections between health, antiracist, environmental, and political movements that are advocating for the types of transformational change described by critical environmental justice.

COVID-19 大流行恰逢美国反种族主义激进主义的强烈高潮，将种族主义的多种形式和后果与公共和环境健康联系起来。这篇评论发展了生态大流行不公正的概念，以解释大流行与社会生态系统之间的相互关系，展示了 COVID-19 如何揭示和加深沿着环境健康线形成的结构性不平等。使用 Pellow 的批判性环境正义理论，我们研究了危机如何使种族主义、贫困和健康之间的联系更加明显和加剧，同时通过集体体现的健康运动提供了实施变革的机会. 我们描述了新的合作以及在健康、反种族主义、环境和政治运动之间的交叉点上潜在的有意义的机会，这些运动倡导关键环境正义所描述的变革类型。