Below you can listen to the inspiring talk by Rex Weyler, co-founder of Greenpeace, on the double bind of the pandemic. Some very good points that Weyler makes in relation to 'whither the global polity in the aftermath of COVID-19:

(1) A long-term perspective is necessary away from the legislature-based short-termism adopted by politicians;

(2) We have to move away from engineering linear thinking towards systems thinking including a humble approach towards Mother Earth as we can't know al...