Polycrisis

A Polycrisis is a crisis that consists of multiple, causally entangled, mutually reinforcing (economic, political, social, ecological) crises.

What may appear to be separate crises in different global systems in fact interact, exacerbate, and reshape one another to form a conjoined “polycrisis” that must be understood and addressed as a whole1

Another word for what my friends at Absurd Intelligence call “The Multifaceted Intersecting Shitshow”.

  1. Michael Lawrence, Scott Janzwood, Thomas Homer-Dixon. What Is A Global Polycrisis? (2022) ↩

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We exist in a complex web of ever changing relations
In an interview to El País in 1981, Jorge Luis Borges said:

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