Covid-19 Salginini İklim Krizi ile Birlikte Düşünmek: Türkiye’de İklim Haberleri Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme
Thinking Climate Crisis with The Covid-19 Pandemic: Reflecting on Climate News in Turkey

Author(s): Aslıhan Ardıç Çobaner
Subject(s): Communication studies, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Covid-19 pandemic; climate crisis; news; climate reporting; content analysis;
Summary/Abstract: This study proposes to look at the Covid-19 pandemic, which has affected the whole world, from a broader perspective as part of the climate crisis. There are many common points between the Covid-19 pandemic as a global crisis and the climate crisis (just like the SARS and Ebola diseases). The pandemic, which is thought to be caused by a live animal market in Wuhan, China, has become global in a short time, news about quarantine decisions, curfews and slowdown in production and industry let air pollution reduce and revitalization of natural life and the beginning of the appearance of wild animals in nature. have exposedthe ecological dimension of pandemic and the climate crisis. However, the Covid-19 outbreak and climate crisis affect the disadvantaged segments of the society more and deepen the existing inequalities. Likewise, disinformation is widespread due to the prevalence of conspiracy theories and denial policies in both areas. In addition, the solution of both requires changes in current socio-economic policies and priorities. This study intends to present an overview of the state of climate news, which can not be found places in the agenda of Turkey in "normal" times, in the Covid-19 pandemic period. For this purpose, content analysis was performed on the news in Google News search for a period of one year, including the dates of the Covid-19 outbreak. The news has been critically examined over whether it is linked to the Covid-19 outbreak, taking into account the principles of climate journalism.

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