SARAH BUITENDACH: Once Covid is gone, what kind of a world will we have?
While we obsess about who in the White House has the coronavirus, life-and-death cycles are ticking away in the real world
07 October 2020 - 06:00
While the health of Donald Trump is dominating the Covid-19 news cycle, it seems some people have noticed a far more critical longer-term problem: we’ve created such an inhospitable environment that, once the virus ceases to be a threat, another crisis looms.
First, we’ve known for a while that the Amazon is in trouble. Not the purveyor of unnecessary cardboard boxes of clothes and gadgets, obviously, but the original Amazon – the 5.5-million square kilometre rainforest spanning nine South American countries...
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