If 2022 is to be any better, political leaders must understand that governance without love for the people it oversees is vulnerable to tyranny and failure.
2021 was the year of political leadership, or more importantly, lack of it, and an invitation to reflect on the social consequences of leadership failures. I think for many of us, it was the year that felt like when time slows down while you are witnessing an accident happen—two seconds that feel like two minutes—or in this case, twelve months that feel like a decade of closings, openings, lockdowns, mandates, curfews, hoarding, and devastation.
From the so-called Third World, we watched as each side went to exactly the same extreme as the other, often in our countries, but tried to reassure us that when they enacted violence on us, it was out of love and when the other side did it, it was out of greed and hatred. With the Omicron variant, countries like France and the United States are reporting their highest number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic, despite having vaccines in abundance. At the same time, there is a real anxiety in countries that have been denied access to vaccines through the complicity of the world's wealthiest nations that this is the wave that will break through their meager defenses and the cycle of lockdowns and travel bans they have been depending on.
2021 was also the year that the climate crisis hinted at the scale of devastation that is knocking at our doors. Floodwaters rushed through and destroyed towns and cities in countries as far apart as Germany, the Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, and Brazil. Unprecedented rainfall all over the world surged rivers that had quietly run their course for hundreds of years and they suddenly burst their banks.
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