Across Europe, the second wave of the pandemic is under way, with infection rates rising from Italy to the UK. And in Yemen, Iraq, Kenya, Congo and Nigeria, famine is at the door, as the broader consequences of the crisis bed in.
‘Fake news’ laws have seen journalists across the world locked up, while misinformation has run amok, with conspiracy theories and COVID-denial bedding in. In Europe and the US, there have been mass protests against lockdown measures, while the police continue to kill people in Kenya under curfew laws.
Meanwhile, in the background, the Amazon and California burn, choking up people’s lungs and the lungs of the earth.
