Stars including Madonna and Barbra Streisand are calling for global economic and cultural change to avert another ecological disaster like the Covid-19 pandemic.
Around 200 scientists and artists including Robert De Niro, Joaquin Phoenix, Juliette Binoche, Cate Blanchett, Marion Cotillard, Olivia Wilde, Sting, and Iggy Pop have signed an op-ed in French newspaper Le Monde titled, “No to a return to normal.” The article begins: “The Covid-19 pandemic is a tragedy.
This crisis, however, has the virtue of inviting us to face the essential questions. The assessment is simple: the ‘adjustments’ are no longer enough, the problem is systemic. “The current ecological disaster is a ‘meta-crisis’: the massive extinction of life on Earth is no longer
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