I'd argue that it happened earlier than that, with two to three orders of magnitude more deaths attributable to SARS2 and it's sequalae, but I agree that this year we have thoroughly killed any pretence of "international rules-based order", or that we are not the baddies in this world.
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Here’s a thing; if the AMOC collapses and results in a mini ice age for Europe, won’t we be the next wave of MIGRANTS, but going the other way?
Could we be banging on the border fences of Middle East and African countries, wanting to come in??