Polycrisis
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A polycrisis is a cluster of disparate crises and shocks that interact, entangle and mutually re-inforce one another.[1] It typically leads to more drastic effects than the sum of the parts.[2][3][4] The concept was coined in the 1990s but became popular in the 2020s to refer to the effects of the pandemic, war, inflation, climate change, energy shortages and democratic backsliding.[5][6][7]
Critics of the term have characterized it as a buzzword or a distraction from more concrete causes of the crises.[6][8]
References[edit]
- ^ Helleiner, Eric (2024). "Economic Globalization's Polycrisis". International Studies Quarterly. 68 (2). doi:10.1093/isq/sqae024.
- ^ Tooze, Adam (2022). "Welcome to the world of the polycrisis". www.ft.com.
- ^ Albert, Michael J. (2024). Navigating the Polycrisis: Mapping the Futures of Capitalism and the Earth. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-54775-8.
- ^ Lawrence, Michael; Homer-Dixon, Thomas; Janzwood, Scott; Rockstöm, Johan; Renn, Ortwin; Donges, Jonathan F. (2024). "Global polycrisis: the causal mechanisms of crisis entanglement". Global Sustainability. 7: e6. doi:10.1017/sus.2024.1. ISSN 2059-4798.
- ^ Homer-Dixon, Thomas (2023-10-18). "Why so much is going wrong at the same time". Vox.
- ^ a b Drezner, Daniel (2023-01-28). "Are we headed toward a "polycrisis"? The buzzword of the moment, explained". Vox.
- ^ "The case for polycrisis as a keyword of our interconnected times | Aeon Essays". Aeon. 2023.
- ^ Lawrence, Michael Murray (2022-12-11). "'Polycrisis' may be a buzzword, but it could help us tackle the world's woes". The Conversation.