{"id":59383,"date":"2020-04-04T07:55:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T06:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/?p=59383"},"modified":"2020-04-13T22:37:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T21:37:39","slug":"no-1-100-years-of-solitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/short-stories-en\/no-1-100-years-of-solitude\/","title":{"rendered":"N\u00ba 1 – 100 Years of Solitude?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday, 5th April 2020<\/h3>\n

100 Years of Solitude?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Please accept this invitation from ECO123. As from today, each morning at breakfast time, you
\nwill receive an opinion piece written by one of our correspondents. Yes, every morning at eight
\no\u2019clock, there will be a story from ECO123, published in this new format and waiting to be read
\nby you. Every day. Every morning, my colleagues, Dina, Alexandre, Sue, Francisco, Leila,
\nSonya and I, as well as some of our independent international collaborators, will be offering
\nyou a short story: food for the soul in these times of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

I am starting my article with a question: Could there be a connection between the real carnage
\ncaused by Covid-19 and our way of life, marked, as it is, by our exaggerated mobility within
\nthe globalised world economy? When we were wishing one another a peaceful and healthy New
\nYear for 2020, no one imagined that a virus would be able to change the world so radically. In
\nless than three months, \u201cthis little bug\u201d has undermined the whole world; apparently stable
\nsocieties are now on the verge of collapse, and it has become frighteningly clear that what
\neveryone somehow already knew, but didn\u2019t dare admit, is that we are living in worlds that act
\nglobally but are simultaneously in cognitive dissonance, absolutely dependent on
\ninterconnected worldwide chains of production, value chains, supply chains, chains of
\nresponsibilities and information, in which we and our products travel by plane from anywhere
\nto everywhere. From one moment to the next, what I\u2019ve chosen to call the house of cards of
\nthe current world economy in my stories, is collapsing and dragging us down with it. Rien ne
\nva plus.<\/p>\n

Faced with this, I offer you instead the resilient model for an active economy at a local and
\nregional level. Money stays in the village: it stays with the baker, with the farmer, in the
\nmarket and at the olive press. This is how we live here in Monchique and in many other
\nvillages in this world. Why did we change that?<\/p>\n

People leave their villages and go to the city. That’s where they find work, but where they also
\nfeel a sense of alienation from themselves. Maintaining traditions ceases to have any value.
\nEverything is different and yet everything is so close to us. One day, we\u2019re in New Zealand, or
\nBangkok, the next day, we pop down to the Algarve. In this globalised world, the village
\nceases to exist. Each action can be transformed, from one moment to the next, into a global
\ndanger. In fact, the pandemic has made each of us a potential transmitter of a deadly virus.
\nWe are the threat, and simultaneously we are threatened. We go from city to city and spread
\nthe virus, taking it from the Rio Carnival to an international football match in Bergamo, and to
\nIschgl to go skiing. We are always partying! The virus is a faithful and invisible companion in
\nthis epidemic of mistrust; first, it destroys common sense, then it attacks our capacity for
\nperception and cognition. In the end, no one can tell what is real and what isn\u2019t, or correctly
\nassess the risks.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Stop! Let’s rewind the film. Let’s start the year once again. What would it have been like if the
\nPresident or the Prime Minister had decreed that this \u201cnonsense\u201d stop, ordering us to be
\nconfined, forcing us to stay at home without using a car any more, to stop travelling by plane
\nor going to football matches, using the climate crisis and the huge man-made CO2 emissions to
\njustify their decision? I think that this confinement is an opportunity. I propose that we use the
\ntime that we now have to reflect on more sustainable ways of living, working and managing
\nour time in the near future. Everything would end up having a deeper meaning.<\/p>\n

Happy Easter<\/p>\n

<\/div>
\"\"

Uwe Heitkamp (60)<\/h3>\n\t\t\ttrained TV journalist, book author and hobby botanist, father of two grown-up children, knows Portugal for 30 years, founder of ECO123.<\/p>\n

Photos: dpa\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n

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