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COVID-19: last chance to reevaluate our values?

In recent months, we have seen how the coronavirus pandemic is paralyzing the economy and daily life of hundreds of millions of people around the world. Is this our last change to reevaluate our values? Español Portugues

By Francesc Badia i Dalmases
COVID-19: last chance to reevaluate our values?
Image from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)-Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institutes of Health (NIH), via Flickr.
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COVID-19 is pushing governments to take unprecedented measures, which go as far as decreeing the total confinement of the population and the freezing of all non-essential activities.

Indeed, we live in an unprecedented and perplexing time, which is changing - as only the world wars of the 20th century did - our views of the world we live in. And that change can be good as it can be bad.

If we want to survive with hope, this may be our last chance to seriously rethink the unsustainable system in which we have settled so far.

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