How else can we explain these monumental and globally felt shifts?
2) People in the public eye or a position of power are being held to account.
Karma topples hubris.
3) Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison, taken down by the #MeToo movement; repeated sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein arrested and died in jail last year; and Hollywood celebrities caught in the College Admissions Scandal.
4) There are many ways in which gender equality is being advanced around the world.
Fresh off a victory in the World Cup, the US women’s soccer team seized the moment to fight for equal pay last year.
5) Climate change has been in the public discourse for well over two decades, but suddenly Greta Thurnberg was chosen as the 2019 Person of the Year by Time magazine.
She succeeded in turning vague anxieties about the planet into a worldwide movement for change.
6) This year, the Earth had its hottest January in recorded history.
Enter Covid-19, which has triggered the largest ever annual fall in carbon dioxide emissions, more than during any previous economic crisis or period of war.
7) For decades, America’s oil majors spent billions to control the climate change conversation and counter proposals to rapidly cut pollution.
That’s not good Karma.
Energy stocks are losers year-to-date. The oil industry is reeling.
8) Colleges have ripped off students with higher tuition costs. There are 45 million people who collectively owe nearly $1.6 trillion in student debt in America.
Now with Covid-19, universities are shut while borrowers will most likely get debt relief.
9) Karma also bestows its blessings on the good guys—the hard working, and the compassionate.
10 ) We are recognizing the sacrifice of medical workers and treating them as heroes.
Essential workers—grocery clerks, delivery people, and warehouse workers—are also being celebrated and finally receiving the acclaim and higher wages they deserve.
11) On a long enough timeline, Karma always wins.
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1) In the Hindu pantheon, there is a tale about Ganesha, the elephant-headed god who is the scribe of storytellers, and his brother, Kartikeya, the athletic warlord of the gods.
The two brothers decided to race one day: three times around the world.
2) Kartikeya leapt on his peacock and flew around the continents, the mountains, and the oceans. He went around once, he went around twice, he went around thrice.
3) But his brother Ganesha simply walked around his parents—once, twice, thrice. And said, “I won.”