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But, even without giving nonhuman animals the moral consideration they deserve, these localized concerns are decisively outweighed by the calamitous impact that ever more frequent global epidemics (and perhaps pandemics) will have.
Ensuring global stability will require deep cooperation in combating climate change, pandemics, and many other threats.
At a time of growing global risks – from pandemics and climate change to nuclear proliferation and Chinese and Russian assertiveness – a US political implosion would be the ultimate threat multiplier.
Though it is novel and has proved more dangerous than most common contagions, it is not unlike the plagues and pandemics humans have confronted throughout recorded history.
By contrast, Asian societies may be better prepared to fight pandemics, because they have found a better balance between the individual and the collective.
Can we learn how to promote democratic values and human rights without military intervention and crusades, and at the same time help organize the rules and institutions needed for a new world of transnational threats such as climate change, pandemics, cyber-attacks, terrorism, and economic instability?
Will they nurture a new business culture geared toward “profit with a purpose,” encouraging (or cajoling) more corporations to pursue decarbonization and solutions to societal challenges like antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the threat of future pandemics?
And because technology is the key weapon in the fight for control of the industries of the future and in combating pandemics, the US private tech sector will become increasingly integrated into the national-security-industrial complex.
Yet, it is already clear that this new coronavirus will have long-lasting effects on the global economy, how we deal with pandemics, and perhaps even the architecture of international aid.
The latter includes the development of technologies to promote agricultural productivity, actions to prevent climate change and mitigate its impact, knowledge creation, information provision, and, of course, preventing and dealing with pandemics.
True, better diagnostics, vaccines, and antibiotics should help to sustain health, control disease, and contain pandemics.
This will be accentuated by the new transnational problems of the twenty-first century such as pandemics, climate change, terrorism, and cybercrime.
After all, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and climate change all make pandemics more likely.
Rather than simply reacting to disasters, we can use the science to design economies that will mitigate the threats of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pandemics.
Even under current conditions, increasing the production of tests and implementing a universal testing strategy is feasible, and could end the pandemic by year’s end, while also creating the infrastructure needed to ward off future pandemics.
Finally, we must address the underlying economic and social disparities that pandemics tend to exacerbate.
In pandemics, too, even a very small difference in the growth trajectory has stark consequences down the line.
Like pandemics, global financial crises represent another serious threat to integration.
Greenhouse gases and pandemics do not respect political borders.
States will increasingly need a framework to enhance cooperation on the use of the sea and space, and on combating climate change and pandemics.
Leaving aside the troubled history of the Iraq War, COVID-19 is a stark reminder that global pandemics, like climate change, do not respect political borders.
Whatever failings the World Health Organization may have, it is the formal instrument of global governance on pandemics.
In that respect, the COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted the absence of an international legal framework to deal with pandemics.
Despite the extraordinary progress that has already been made, ending these pandemics and achieving the broader goal of ensuring the health and wellbeing of all will require ramping up efforts to support countries in building resilient and inclusive health systems.
These efforts have proved tremendously effective in reducing these pandemics’ death toll.
This trifecta of risks – uncontained pandemics, insufficient economic-policy arsenals, and geopolitical white swans – will be enough to tip the global economy into persistent depression and a runaway financial-market meltdown.
This shift has major implications for how the coronavirus spreads, how many people will die, and how we should respond to this and future pandemics.
First, we must strengthen our medical capacity to fight pandemics by increasing the supply of intensive-care beds, ventilators, and other essential goods and equipment.
As the costs of pandemics increase, so, too, should investment in medical mitigation.
Such efforts will also be crucial to minimizing the costs of future pandemics that will occur over the course of these long lives.
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