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1/ TO SURVIVE WE NEED STRUCTURAL CHANGE
We have developed societies that give people unparalleled convenience and comfort
But this depends on extreme efficiency in labor markets, production and supply, and previously unimaginable levels of debt
We have developed societies that give people unparalleled convenience and comfort
But this depends on extreme efficiency in labor markets, production and supply, and previously unimaginable levels of debt
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The enormous cost of this system to people and nature was already clearly visible
It created increasingly stark divisions and tensions
The #coronavirus crisis now lays this unequally carried cost even more bare
The enormous cost of this system to people and nature was already clearly visible
It created increasingly stark divisions and tensions
The #coronavirus crisis now lays this unequally carried cost even more bare
3/
Temporary payments and economic stimuli wonât solve our problems
They are structural, not a result of the pandemic
The pandemic merely exposes the weaknesses and insufficient resilience of our societies
And there will be more pandemics
Some far more deadly than this one
Temporary payments and economic stimuli wonât solve our problems
They are structural, not a result of the pandemic
The pandemic merely exposes the weaknesses and insufficient resilience of our societies
And there will be more pandemics
Some far more deadly than this one
4/
We must create societies that can withstand such shocks
Societies that donât use up the worldâs resources before nature can replenish them
New political, economical and social systems
We must create societies that can withstand such shocks
Societies that donât use up the worldâs resources before nature can replenish them
New political, economical and social systems
5/
Some of the answers are already out there
Others we will need to invent
We need leaders willing to experiment
While avoiding populists and false prophets from taking advantage of the turmoil to take power
Some of the answers are already out there
Others we will need to invent
We need leaders willing to experiment
While avoiding populists and false prophets from taking advantage of the turmoil to take power
