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After The Virus: Revolutions Across The World
The pandemic will end, and its aftermath could bring waves of revolutions across the globe.
Final Push
As the West appears to be approaching the peak of the new pandemic, and some countries have begun the first tentative steps to re-open their societies, the global south is now seeing the first waves of the virus reaching their shores.
Parts of Asia, Africa and South America have begun to report a steady increasing rate of infection. Many of these nations are copying the model set by China and the West and have begun to implement full-scale lock downs to curtail the virus’ spread.
Now, a leading investment firm have released a report stating that the aftermath of the virus will herald widespread food shortages across some of the world’s most fragile states.
This report by Guggenheim Investments warns that such disruption to food supply will be followed by political instability and, ultimately, revolutions.
Poor countries (‘emerging markets’ in investor language) have already been heavily hit by the slowdown in demand from global manufacturing hubs like China, which is a key importer of the raw materials that poor nations have built their economies around. When the virus…
