Blog: No Vaccine for Climate Crisis

Lei Zhang is CEO of Envision Group, a leading green tech company headquartered in Shanghai.

No one could have predicted a plague sweeping the globe. Although medical experts have warned humanity over the past few decades that a global pandemic could break out at any moment, governments, medical systems and international organizations continued ignoring the warnings. When we deceive ourselves, we invariably end up paying an extremely heavy price. Population aggregation and transnational mobilization — as results of urbanization and globalization — create a complex and highly beneficial “super network” of interwoven resources, information and logistics, but that same network makes civilization more vulnerable than ever.