since the early 21st century, the Modern Project has been replaced by the Global Age, where the present is ‘reality in flux,’ as globalization, including the globalized Arctic, “offers both economic competition and cosmopolitanism as an alternative to the historical construction of the American hyphenated identity.”1 As a part of that reality, the main message of the 2021 UN Climate Change Report,2 as an awakening call, reflects the crossing of several ‘planetary boundaries.’ A global ecological catastrophe –pollution, loss of biodiversity, climate change, and related impacts combined– puts the existence of human life in danger. Buzan and Hansen foresaw and warned that global warming and the possibility of a rampant and virulent epidemic are “the two most likely environmental wild cards.”3 Indeed, in addition to an ecological catastrophe, the world was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic as an invisible enemy causing terror among citizens and threatening our modern societies. The pandemic is far from over, as there are still infections with new waves and mutations, deaths, as well as slowness in distributing vaccinations globally.
