COVID-19, the World, And Me

The concluding essay is a piece by Marco Armiero, the president of the European Society for Environmental History and also a COVID-19 survivor. As his essay reveals, Marco had a much closer encounter with the virus than anyone wants. Marco's contribution, which is set in the context of those that precede it, underscores a central insight of environmental history: that the human and nonhuman worlds are inextricably linked and that we ignore this linkage at our peril.