Everything Covid-19 won't change

Le Regard Libre N° 63 - Clément Guntern

Dossier «Covid-19 and globalization»

In almost every media outlet, calls have multiplied to turn the drama we are going through into an opportunity to change the world we know. Globalization has been targeted by some without the slightest nuance, sometimes even by those who helped forge it. But will it decline rapidly? Nothing is less certain.

When the pandemic hit us late last winter, few people were looking beyond the government’s next announcement of new public health measures. Yet, even as we were still focused on the immediate task at hand (perhaps we should remain so for a little while longer), the discussions shifted toward the broad topic of the post-coronavirus era. It didn’t take long before this or that individual or group…