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 upheaval across the world — from India to the United States — it is the poor (black or brown) who have been disproportionately hit by the virus. They have suffered twice: They lost lives to the contagion and they lost livelihoods.
But even as this heart-breaking crisis is unfolding in front of our eyes, there is another looming disaster which is waving a red flag — climate change. In the last 15 days, the eastern side of India has been hit by a super cyclone, which has devastated lives and property.
But this is not all, the western side — COVID-hit cities of Mumbai and Ahmedabad may also be hit by a cyclone very soon. This, when we know, the aftermath of these events is worse because it takes away the development dividend and years of investment into building infrastructure to improve the lives of people...
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