Saturday, December 31, 2016

Let’s upcycle the year 2016

The footage of the children in Aleppo will forever be etched in my mind. Aleppo is an end to the year which wraps up what 2016 has been in international politics: cruel, tense, inhumane. I suppose if 2016 taught us something it is that consumerism is passé. We cannot really enjoy shopping for the sake of shopping when all around us everything is shaky. I am writing this in the airport of Brussels, not far from the spot where in March three coordinated suicide bombings set off. Then we had Bastille Day attack in Nice; plane crashes; Panama papers; the post-truth fever; Zika; the deaths of... This article is part of our premium content. Full story is available on Times of Malta Premium.

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