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2020 has been a turbulent year so far. Multiple crises are co-existing and influence the way this year will be remembered: the climate crisis, the corona crisis and the racial injustice crisis. The link between these three crisis-phenomena are rarely explored, yet they are evident.
The corona virus outbreak induced awave of fear in citizens world-wide, causing them to increasingly want to protect what’s theirs. This gave way to a movement of so-called ‘citizen-detectives’ who decided to take the state administered borderwork-practices to the next level.
This biological disaster might be a chance for autocratic regimes to reconsider their politics and instead of wasting their budgets on disciplining and punishing their populations, they should use them to build strong and just nations.