A cobertura da Folha de São Paulo e do G1 sobre os impactos ambientais na Guerra da Ucrânia

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the reports of Folha de São Paulo and the G1 website, Grupo Folha and Grupo o Globo, respectively, on the environmental impacts of the War in Ukraine, observing the precepts of Environmental Journalism that were applied. To this end, Content Analysis (CA) was used as a methodology according to the molds proposed by Bardin to observe the articles of the two media outlets, both quantitatively and qualitatively, in the first two months of the conflict, a moment in which there was a lot of media prominence on the subject. It is interesting to note that the war in Ukraine officially began on February 24, 2022, when the then-president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, bombed several cities in Ukraine, after the approach of the former ally the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), however the geopolitical war goes through several historical motivations over time,such as the nonrecognition of Ukraine's independence by Russia, which sees it as an extension of its territory. Thus, this research is based mainly on the little emphasis given to the environmental theme in armed conflicts, as emphasized by the author Shinar (2013), who explains that in armed conflicts the emphasis is given to issues that involve human beings in a direct way, such as the number of deaths, or economic issues. In general, the environment ends up being treated as something discarded, which should not present so much evidence, and, therefore, often the emphasis is given only to human beings, while the consequences that a given conflict can bring to the ecosystem are ignored.