TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Guterres, Jokowi should lead efforts to end Ukraine war
Invariably, if the Ukraine war is not given deeper consideration -- naturally, on how it must be resolved -- aggressive and pesky inflation will affect the whole of Europe and the world.
Change Size
Evacuated residents of the eastern Ukraine city of Lyman, which has received heavy shelling, drive their car in Raihorodok on May 2 as Russian forces continued their push into eastern Ukraine on May 1, killing eight civilians in rocket attacks in Donetsk and Kharkiv, the regions' governors said. (AFP/Yasuyoshi Chiba)
At the mid-point of 2022, the world is beset with some very serious problems. The lives and livelihoods of billions of people are at stake with generational impact.
What was originally touted as the year (i.e. 2022) by which the world would bounce back with even greater vigor than a deeply troubled 2021 is now entering a more vicious second half in 2022.
The outlook of the next world order -- due to supply-chain disruptions and further SARS-Cov-2 subvariants (2 Ss) -- demands an immediate cessation of violence to give every country in this world a respite to contemplate how to return to some sense of "new normal".
But truly, the world order has to claw its way back up from the depths of darkness. Perhaps one can abbreviate the problems as 3 Ps in order to repair the damages wrought on and by 2 Ss.
In the psychological realm, the suicide rate continues to climb. Between 1950 and 2019 -- this is prior to the onset of a full-blown pandemic declared on March 11, 2020 -- the statistics provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) showed progressive uptick in the number of suicides by 60 percent. In other words, more and more people, for various reasons, have chosen to end their earthly lives prematurely.
When the pandemic took at least 2 billion people back to extreme poverty, it goes without saying as shown by the World Bank in 2021 that the most vulnerable groups of people are bound to lose hope first.
