This is what a perfect storm of shocks looks like

In an column in Business Standard Arunabha Ghosh, CDP member and CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, India, claims that the coronavirus did not trigger an economic crisis; instead, it tipped the scales when conditions were already vulnerable. Past shocks and the current pandemic underscore that tipping points need not be physical alone. It certainly matters what we do to the planet and what the planet does to us. What really matters, though, is what we do to each other.

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