For years, when I teach globalization, we spend a day discussing whether globalization is an inevitable, one-way street. The textbook mentions some things that can reverse globalization, but I always added "pandemic" to that list, since great plagues have created insular politics in the past. I can't have been alone in that observation. A true pandemic was inevitable. This moment was coming; scientists knew about it; Democrats prepared for it; Republicans downplayed it (and destroyed the playbook left to them).
Anyways, global warming is still the greatest threat we face.
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