'The year 2020 will be remembered as a turnaround point in human history. ... The Covid-19 pandemic is offering us a chance to reinvent ourselves,' Marcelo Gleiser writes for CNNOpinion
Marcelo Gleiser is the 2019 Templeton Prize Laureate, and the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth College. His books include"The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning." The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.
I turned 61 last week, and am now, along with millions of others across the globe, within the higher risk group for Covid-19. Before this turn of events, ours had been the generation that had, along with billions of others younger and slightly older than me, avoided a major global crisis. Marcelo Gleiser Unlike our parents and grandparents, we didn't face the tragedy of living through two World Wars; we avoided nuclear warfare during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the Cold War. Now, our luck has run out. With the Covid-19 pandemic striking full force across the globe, it's easy to stare in disbelief at the growing number of deaths. But the pandemic is here, and it will get worse before it gets better. How much worse depends on all of us.
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