The ending of Graeber's first book - easily the best intro to anthropological value theory - has a stunningly beautiful passage on the concepts of 'pain' and 'pleasure.'
@paul_rekret Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor - Rob Nixon; Carbon Democracy - Timothy Mitchell. have dozens of recs if you want specific thing
@danhancox "Robinson, of course, was not at all convinced by any of the official stories of the origins of the virus, and seemed to alternate between arguing that it had been released deliberately from a biological warfare laboratory, or that in fact it did not exist at all"