2020: A year we will remember

Roberts, David

doi:10.1111/tme.12751

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“…At the outset, we underscore that, in the medical and scientific literature, "2020" has become shorthand for "a year to remember" [6][7][8][9][10] (Figure 1). Obviously, the direct pathological threat of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is central to the 2020 moniker, but it was also a year that witnessed numerous (oft-related) seismic events-global protests against racial injustice [11], crisis-level spread of dis/misinformation [12], the rise of political authoritarianism [13], unprecedented wildfires in Australia [14], further reports that US life expectancy is declining (after decades of gain) [15,16], and massive wealth accumulation among a sliver of the global population [17] while precariousness and food and housing insecurity increased [18][19][20].…”

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Catalyst Twenty-Twenty: Post-Traumatic Growth at Scales of Person, Place and Planet

Logan¹,

Berman

Scott

et al. 2021

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Planetary health is a broad multidisciplinary effort that attempts to address what has been described as “Anthropocene Syndrome”—the wicked, interrelated challenges of our time. These include, but are not limited to, grotesque biodiversity losses, climate change, environmental degradation, resource depletion, the global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), health inequalities, social injustices, erosion of wisdom and civility, together with the many structural underpinnings of these grand challenges. The ultimate aim of planetary health is flourishing along every link in the person, place and planet continuum. The events of “2020” have illuminated the consequences of “mass trauma” and how sub-threshold anxiety and/or depressive symptoms erase the rigid lines between mental “health” and mental “disorders”, and unmasked the systemic forms of injustice, discrimination, and oppression that have too often escaped discourse. Here, we query the ways in which post-traumatic growth research might inform the larger planetary health community, especially in the context of a global pandemic, broadening socioeconomic inequalities, a worsening climate crisis, and the rise of political authoritarianism. The available research would suggest that “2020” fulfills the trauma criteria of having a “seismic impact on the assumptive world”, and as such, provides fertile ground for post-traumatic growth. Among the many potential positive changes that might occur in response to trauma, we focus on the value of new awareness, perspective and greater wisdom.

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