Can we save the planet by shrinking the economy?
25 min
What is the true cost of the virus in the global south? The entire world has been impacted by the pandemic, but — when it comes to richer and poorer nations — a global event can also be a profoundly local one. Lives in the developing world have been impacted in a very different way to people in Europe or the US, creating a second shadow pandemic. Philosopher and cultural theorist, Kwame Anthony Appiah, explains how the disparities between the global north and south are likely to be a feature of crises to come, and argues for a richer sense of our mutual obligations in a post-pandemic era.