"In 2019, the New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) Initiative at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), established to distil the lessons from the Global Financial Crisis, suggested “a new crisis could emerge suddenly, from many different sources, and with potentially harmful effects”. It was at a Conference called Averting Systemic Collapse. In 2020, the collapse came, albeit only partially.
The COVID pandemic has revealed deep fissures in the socio-economic system, which have been developing for a long time. The scale and scope of the existential problems we are facing are now evident. On current trends, global food production will have to double over the next 30 years, but more than 75% of the Earth's land is substantially degraded. ..."

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