Humanitarian Affairs
Menacing Storms
How Might We Rise as a Storm Shelter for the Most Vulnerable?
Our world is rippling with crisis.
Our societies are ruptured by rampant instability, inequality and insecurity. Conflict and turmoil endlessly roil Yemen, Syria, Somalia, and other soil in Africa and the Middle East.
Infestations range from biblical hordes of locusts by the trillions devouring crops and threatening famines in wide swathes across East Africa, to the far less serious threat of so-called “Murder Hornets” in the Western United States.
Of course the ubiquitous CoronaVirus is writhing around the planet, lashing out at individuals, taking down economies, and overwhelming health systems in Asia, Europe and pockets of the Americas.
Even worse, Covid-19 portends unimaginable horror to be visited upon nations lacking sufficient resources to fight it, the robust health systems to tend to its targets, or the economic resilience at the household level to avoid sheer collapse.
