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After the pandemic, will we return to business as usual?

After the catastrophe of the Covid-19 pandemic, we can seriously ask if the “new normal” will be business as usual or is this an opportunity to seriously start changing the paradigm of our civilisation. Português, Español

After the pandemic, will we return to business as usual?
Aerial photo of Manhattan in New York City, taken in October 2019
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Meteorologists have warned that this year is on track to become the hottest since records began. The climate crisis continues, whose medium-term consequences will be devastating, without being controlled. And meanwhile, all of us are looking with uncertainty at the future that awaits us, and the daily Covid-19 lockdown news leave us dreaming of returning to a lost normality.

Whilst it is true that the global halt in social and economic activity, the closure of borders and airspace, and the lockdown of the world’s populations has left clear skies and created a small window for fauna and flora to regrow.

It is also true that the long hours in quarantine, without distractions, has opened another window of opportunity for us. To rethink the accelerated rhythm of the model of life in which we are immersed, personally and as a society. What should our existential priorities be? Are we going to do something meaningful when we regain the freedom to move and consume goods and services?