Multiple crises: The cost of wasted time

The link of these disparate events to climate change is incontrovertible

The world is paying for years of procrastination and prevarication. Already multiple back-breaking crises are unfolding, simply because we did not fix what was broken in the past. So, on the one hand, we are confronted with Covid-19 — leading to both health crisis and massive economic collapse, driving down the livelihoods of the poorest and the most vulnerable. As we can see from the upheavals across the world — from India to the US — it is the poor (black or brown) who have been disproportionately hit by the virus. They have suffered twice: They lost lives to the