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The next pandemic “is climate change” says Li Edelkoort
Tom Ravenscroft
11 March 2021
“The only things I miss are flirting, dancing and cuddling” says Li Edelkoort on the anniversary of the pandemic”
Two days before Covid-19 was declared a pandemic last year, trend forecaster Li Edelkoort predicted it would lead to a quarantine of consumption in an interview with Dezeen. In the third part of our series marking the anniversary of the pandemic, she discusses how it has changed the world.
In the 2020 interview, which later became Dezeen’s most-read story of all time, Edelkoort predicted that coronavirus would lead to “a global recession of a magnitude that has not been experienced before.”
“It seems we are massively entering a quarantine of consumption where we will learn how to be happy just with a simple dress, rediscovering old favourites we own, reading a forgotten book and cooking up a storm to make life beautiful,” she said.
Climate change “a more deadly challenge”
Speaking to Dezeen this week, she said that after coronavirus, the world will have to deal with the even bigger threat that is climate change.
“After this pandemic, we will fully engage with the next one which is climate change,” she said. “Possibly a more deadly and devastating challenge.”
“It seems that awareness has grown immensely on all levels, private, public and corporate,” said Edelkoort, who runs New York City forecasting agency Edelkoort Inc.
“To witness nature take its course has inspired everybody and health and wellbeing have become important issues on a larger scale.”
