We have met the enemy, and he is us.

By
Molly Roberts
Editorial Writer
April 8, 2020 at 4:28 PM EDT

Pogo got it right. We have met the enemy, and he is us.

Our globalized system is in part to blame for this disease ballooning, and yet at the same time our lack of global spirit is to blame for our inability to deflate the blimp before it explodes — by coordinating an international response that could contain the germ’s spread instead of allowing it to move in its own ruthless way. The same sort of international action will be necessary for Carroll’s virus-fighting atlas to come to fruition, too. Can we summon the will, not to mention the goodwill?

The problem is everything is connected, and the problem is, despite all that, we’re not connected enough.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/08/we-made-this-disaster-ourselves/