Last year there was talk of “saving Christmas”, and now, of “ensure the supply of Christmas”, but the discomfort of poorly associated or unfocused words, far from people, from social exclusion, from transcendence … is the same. A little over a month before Christmas, after the chestnut-colored and with the nougats in the distance, burning stages without giving us time and space to fully live the present, the anguish of the second Christmas of the pandemic has already been installed in the public narrative.
The supply crisis that affects world trade is a direct consequence of the pandemic, in a pendular movement typical of rampant capitalism that associates recovery with voracity and, consequently, speculation and price inflation. But this juncture is a first cousin of a resource exploitation crisis global much more serious. “Imperfect agreement” and “fragile victory” are some of the expressions that have been used to describe the outcome of COP26. A brutal energy and energy consumption in 15 days to report energy consumption and not be able to agree on how to reduce it for not wanting to bear its cost.
All of this does not mask the question we should ask ourselves about what we really “need”. Much less of almost everything and much more of some things. While I celebrate that my mother has just received the third dose of the vaccine against covid-19 and that 75% of the population of Catalonia of more than 16 years already have two doses, I also live with discomfort that the figure of the average in the world does not reach 40% and not even half in the countries with the lowest incomes. Degrowth and redistribution they must go hand in hand to reduce inequalities and enable a future for more people.
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I do a search for the word Christmas in articles from other years and the word “uncomfortable” is ubiquitous. A good theme for Advent, I see. The supply apocalypse rings loud and clear as the Black Friday claim remains intact, but that of the Banc dels Aliments too, and it’s next weekend.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com