Key Points
Most recently, the World Health Organization estimates that covid-19 has killed close to seven million peopleand possibly multiples of that numbermany of them in rich countries, including nearly 1.2 million Americans..
Recent events present a depressing catalogue: slow or negative growth; rising global temperatures; resurgent infectious diseases; anti-democratic and right-wing populist politics; stalling globalization; stagnant life expectancy; and increased geopolitical tensions, particularly between the worlds two largest economies, the United States and China..
It would be a shameful outcome if, after years of giving aid that undermined democratic governance in poor countries, the rich world provided aid to support the top-down imposition of climate policies that its own more democratic constituencies still resist..
Beyond that, the rate of reduction in mortality from cardiovascular disease, which has driven much of the increase in life expectancy in the rich world since 1970, has slowed in many countries and reversed among Americans without a college degree..
We urgently need a new global economic order that can preserve and extend the great escape, but with greater care for domestic politics and for the well-being of non-wealthy, less-educated majorities in wealthy countries..
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