War always causes terrible suffering. It results in enormous numbers of people being killed, wounded, or permanently disabled, destroys homes and infrastructure, pollutes the environment, fuels hatred among peoples, and leaves psychological consequences that extend far beyond the end of the conflicts themselves. In truth, no one can accurately calculate all the direct and indirect costs and consequences of war. The current conflict, unlawfully launched by the United States and Israel against Iran, is already causing social and economic repercussions that will crash like a tsunami into every corner of the world.
The World Food Programme has already warned that a continuation of the war would push an additional 45 million people towards hunger. The cost of transporting humanitarian aid has already risen by 18%, while fuel and fertiliser supply routes have also been disrupted, with roughly a quarter of the world’s fertiliser supply passing through the Strait of Hormuz. (Share The World’s Resources)
This war will not only bring greater poverty, hunger, and new economic crises, but could also break the economic system as we know it. Rising fuel prices and queues at petrol stations are only the first signs. Food production is already becoming more expensive, even though this is not yet fully visible on shop shelves.
Trump, who alone still has the power to stop this war, sees only the interests of the United States – a country safely distant from these war zones. Yet every day of war is a step closer to the collapse of the global economy. People may blame oil companies, the government, or anyone else, but the main culprit is U.S. President Trump, who, under Netanyahu’s destructive influence, launched this war and stubbornly persists in it, even though there is no winner in this war, and there will be none.
It is the economic system that will be defeated. But what does that really mean? Poverty, hunger, long queues at petrol stations and in shops, social unrest, migration, and much more besides. It sounds bleak. And it is bleak.
Anyone who believes that the existing economic system can simply be “put back together again” is mistaken. Perhaps that is still possible at this moment. But with each additional day of war, it will become more difficult. The system is now so globally interconnected that war affects everything everywhere: it is already causing disruptions and delays, breaking supply chains, interrupting travel and trade routes, and destroying jobs.
If we want to restore global stability and prevent further disintegration, we will have to begin in an entirely different way, on new foundations. On the foundations of cooperation and the sharing of resources. That is the sharing economy.
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