New global order (or disorder)

It’s for the world to come together. But it’s a time when the world is falling apart. It’s a time for global institutions to have a loud voice. But it’s a time when they are most feeble. It’s a time for cooperation and trust, so that local and global action can be decisive and meaningful. But it’s a time when partisan, divisive, and hurtful politics is ruling — across nations and within nations.

Just think. All the crises we see before us today — from air pollution to climate change, from coronavirus to locust attacks that are now destroying the fields