Angus Hervey

And as we argue online, planetary crisis, firestorms in our cities, plastic in our blood,

the pollinators, the permafrost, the coral reefs and ice-free Arctic within our lifetimes.

The tipping points loom, and Gramsci's monsters are at the gates, precisely at the moment that we seem least equipped to deal with them.

This is the story of collapse.

It is on the front page of all the news sites.

It is at the top of all our news feeds.

We are intimately familiar with its graphic details.

You can tune it out, you can turn it off, but you cannot ignore it.

There is something missing, though, from this story.

There's no room in it for the words of people like Helen Awuro, a nurse from Kenya,

Just over 12 months ago, humanity began the rollout of the first ever vaccine for malaria.

And as you can hear, it's working.

The kids aren't dying anymore.

Already, over five million children in 17 countries have been vaccinated.

By the end of this decade, the plan is to reach 50 million.

50 million children finally protected against a disease that has been killing children since before we invented writing.

And that is not the only story that's missing.

Since you were last all in this room, 11 countries have eliminated a disease, including Jordan, the first-ever country to eliminate leprosy.

Eight countries, home to over 100 million children, have either banned or committed to banning corporal punishment in all settings.

Zambia, Sierra Leone and Colombia all banned child marriage.