Worth Repeating: The best of times, and the worst of times

New Thinking for a New World · Jul 1, 2021 · 37m

This week’s guests are dedicated to trying to make the world the kind of place it could and should be.

Even as the pandemic, like some giant glacier, slowly and unevenly recedes, the world seems frozen in place as it deals with the mess left behind. Increased poverty and malnutrition; greater inequality; damaged and depleted health care systems; rising social and political tensions. But is this a crisis or opportunity? Or, rather, are we smart enough and driven enough to turn what threatens to be a period of enormous strife—of the kind that often follows pandemics—into a new era of positive…