THE WORLD STANDS ON THE PRECIPICE. “There are still 2 billion people who lack safe drinking water, more than 1.5 billion people who do not have electricity and there are more than 60 million children who do not go to school, even elementary school. This is sad, this is really heartbreaking,” said former UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon to CNBC.
Indeed, the multiple disasters that the world is currently facing, have only been accentuated by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. According to The Global Risks Report 2021, the 16th edition published by the World Economic Forum, “The immediate human and economic costs of COVID-19 are severe, threatening to scale back years of progress on reducing global poverty and inequality and further damage social cohesion and global cooperation.”
But despite the inescapable fallout from COVID-19, it is climate-related matters that make up the bulk of this year’s risk list, which the report describes as “an existential threat to humanity” and even then there’s no consensus on how or which of the many immediate crisis need to be tackled nor in what order. Archimedes once said in the Doric speech of Syracuse: “Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world.” Imagine how the monumental challenges we face as a species can be surmounted if people of conviction are given the right lever.
A Lever Named Rolex
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