The Pandemic Portal: How This Moment Will Change Everything - 大象传媒 Magazine Solutions Journalism

Jul 22, 2020

A discussion with 大象传媒 executive editor Zenobia Jeffries Warfield, author Nafeez Ahmed, and 大象传媒 co-founder and author David Korten on how the pandemic and current global uprisings will serve as a portal to a new normal and how, as Ahmed writes in the latest issue of 大象传媒 Magazine, what comes next will be formed by 鈥渨hat we devote ourselves to, where our alignments lie, and what our real commitments are.鈥�

鈥淢ore than 20 years ago, David Korten was offering small groups of people a profound vision to 鈥榬estore democracy and create mindful market economies. We can create cultures and the institutions of the just, sustainable, and compassionate world of which we all dream.鈥� It鈥檚 taken a full-blown pandemic to snap us awake鈥ithin this threshold moment, outsized opportunities to bring such vision into the forefront of policy are rapidly emerging.鈥�
鈥� Nafeez Ahmed, reporter, best-selling author, and System Shift Lab executive director

Streamed live and recorded on July 16, 2020.

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