Enis Temizel
Rahmi Aydemir
Today, the Covid-19 pandemic caught the whole world off guard. We are witnessing the collapse of the health systems of even the developed countries. Aside from preventing the spread of the disease, we are neither economically nor technologically responsive. Inconsistent statements and out-of-focus efforts of authoritarian institutions such as the World Health Organization are enough to upset our nerves. The fact that the media is a powerful tool for mind control causes social panic to escalate. It should be a trademark of the Digital Stone Age; while speaking of artificial intelligence, 5G and the algorithms that will guide our senses, the whole world has no purpose other than survival, trapped in homes. Our habits that have not changed throughout history are no different from the Paleolithic Age! There is, of course, a light at the end of this work, but we will not escape the fact that humanity will wake up tomorrow as hacked. In the new world, our perspective on human life, climate change, politics and technology will change.
Global Common Struggle from Climate Change to the Economy
Let’s face it! Whatever our discourses were, we failed. The world, which has faced common difficulties throughout history, is far from being able to fight against the global epidemic as a single civilization like today! The understanding of humanism of the 21st century was until it faced the pandemic. Now we can better understand that. Everything on the planet is interrelated.
Mankind has faced many diseases and mass deaths that have not been in hand throughout history. However, with the Anthropocene Age (man-made) that started with the industrial revolution, between 1800 and 2010, while the global population increased from one billion to seven billion, real production increased 60 times, (primary) energy consumption increased 50 times. All this consumption and production craze resulted in climate change. (www.abstraktdergi. net) However, the effects of climate change have been great. The nuclear power plant in China or the thermal power plants in our country are enough to pollute not only our own air but also the air of another country at one end of the world.
After the pandemic, politics in many areas from economy to international relations will have to be shaped by global warming and ecological collapse.
Discussions for New Economic Order
In order to find solutions to the problems faced right after the Second World War, an international conference was held in the town of Bretton Woods in the USA with the participation of 44 countries. The decisions taken at this conference were called the Bretton Woods System. Two plans were presented to the conference, one as the English plan (Keynes Plan) and the other as the American plan (D. White plan). As a result, the White plan was adopted with minor changes. The White Plan or the first leg of the Bretton Woods system was designing a monetary system that would mediate international payment. Accordingly, the golden currency system would be valid in foreign payments and an ounce of gold (equivalent to 31 grams) would be equal to $ 35 ($) and the fixed exchange system would be valid. The second leg of the Bretton Woods system was to give intermediation in international payments to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). During its 75-year adventure, the IMF gave up today and became unable to respond economically to countries in the context of combating pandemics. The world needs a new economic formation. An inclusive, perhaps greener understanding of economy… The economy of savings seems irresistible.
Let’s consider the economies that China will affect locally and internationally when its annual exports are considered as 2.2 trillion dollars. Also, let’s not ignore that all the countries of the world have stopped their production. It seems like how long the USA’s adventure of printing money continues and the results will not be known, but we will observe some increase due to the dollar reserve. In short, the improvement in financial markets will not be parallel with the improvement in real markets. Breakings in the supply chain unfortunately manifested itself with the onset of cases. As time goes on, resistance decreases and it will be very difficult to restore this chain.
Unfortunately, our future is not guaranteed by any state. We learn that life is not a fairy tale, and a new future begins for man to position and know himself. When we search for the doors of an unprecedented revolution, what we find will not be an army of robots or a world of Cyberpunk! As individuals who can make sense of the world in the Digital Stone Age and are not hacked in the face of technology, we will be the winner or in other words survive as long as we hold our authority.
