The exposures of the Epstein scandal have provided another strong reminder that we cannot always take the authorities at their word. That so many of the world’s political and financial elite were embroiled in compromising associations with a child sex trafficker (and possible intelligence operative) urges us to be more vigilant than ever in scrutinising the actions and inactions of the powers that be.
When papal encyclicals, high-ranking clerics and international business leaders all sing from the same hymn sheet at the World Economic Forum, it does not necessarily mean they are wrong, but it is right for us to engage critically with what is being said – and what is not being said. Loud statements regarding climate catastrophes are matched with silence on grave environmental threats that undermine the very future of human life. Nowhere is this mismatch clearer than when it comes to microplastics and their impact on human fertility.
