December 31 st 2019 we first heard about a strange virus killing people in a faraway place called Wuhan. Almost overnight covid did two things. It stopped the hands on the clock of growth, consumption, competition and pollution- a clock previously considered unstoppable. And it focused a new lens on inequality.
Was this the bump into reality which started a new story about our purpose and how we best organise ourselves more fairly in society? Unfortunately not. The inequality of climate change is stark. The inequality of war is stark.
Ashok saw these inequalities and felt their importance in creating the conditions for social unrest and the mass migration of peoples.