Will 2021 bring a new world order?
This Covid winter is only just beginning, and it’s already feeling long, cold, and dreary. Countries across Europe are going back into lockdown, and Switzerland could well be the next, if virus cases continue to rise.
This content was published on December 15, 2020 - 14:00
December 15, 2020 - 14:00
Imogen Foulkes
And yet despite this seismic year, and the once unimaginable disruption to all our lives, the world ticks on. Food, for most of us, is being shipped around the world, arriving in our supermarkets on time. Trains are running, mostly; kids are at school, mostly.
There are other, less positive continuities too; war in Syria and Yemen, climate change related drought and potential famine in Africa’s Sahel region, refugee crises caused by conflict and instability from Venezuela to Ethiopia.