Inequality and the Polycrisis
Notwithstanding its many downsides, the era of neoliberal globalization had one significant claim to success: the growing wealth of once-poor countries, based largely on their ability to export into the…
Polycrisis
Doubling Down on Regeneration
If you’re anything like me, over the past few weeks since Donald Trump’s sweeping election victory, you’ve been engaged in deep and prolonged reflection about what it means that such…
Three generations have lived under the threat of human-made factors disrupting life and life-nurturing conditions
Earth is universally identified as predominantly the planet of human beings, but actually human beings in their present form have a history of probably just about 0.1 million years (or…
Trump, Trumpism, and the Polycrisis
“Polycrisis” is a word that has recently come into use to characterize the way crises in many different spheres – ranging from geopolitics and economics to climate and pandemic –…
Reason Wounded, Hope Denied—World Leadership Response in Difficult Times
Here is an AI-generated podcast based on the article The most important and unprecedented aspect of world in recent decades has been that for the first time there are human…
Towards a Plan for Resolving the Survival Crisis Within Framework of Justice and Peace
In 1992 an appeal by the Union of Concerned Scientists and about 1575 other scientists (including 99 of the 196 living Nobel laureates) issued as World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity,…
Trump, Biden, and the Crisis of the Neoliberal International Order
A hegemonic stalemate or a hegemonic vacuum opens up the path to a world where power could be more decentralized. Whether we call it “polycrisis,” like Columbia University Professor Adam…
Mapping the Parallels of US Conflict: From Vietnam to the War on China
On August 4th, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood in front of the American public and stated, “We Americans know, as do others though some may forget, the risk of…
Prophets of Profit Are Increasing Existing Dangers, and Creating New Ones as Well
The most important issue of the present-day world is that earth’s life-nurturing conditions are badly threatened. At a time when maximum efforts need to be made for protecting these life-nurturing…
Lessons from History for Ensuring the Safety of Future Generations
Imagine a forest based community about 20,000 years back. Here an elderly lady is teaching younger community members some essentials of life. Neither she nor her pupils know any alphabets…
A Make-or-Break Moment in Humanity’s Perilous Journey
The polycrisis marks a historic inflection point in the story of civilization. Once we’re past a rapidly approaching moment, society won’t be able to maintain business as usual, even with…
Three Top Priorities Our Endangered World Needs the Most for Safety
There are several important challenges before the world to find solutions for diverse problems. However when it comes to identifying the most urgent concerns of our endangered world, three issues…
Humans can never win World War Zero–Part 1
Economics is based on war against nature and theft from working people Economics sanctifies war against nature to create wealth and distribute it inequitably between people and nations. Economics encourages…
The Way Forward for People’s Mobilization on Crucial Survival Issues
It is relatively easier to achieve wide agreement that those problems which threaten the basic life-nurturing conditions of earth—such as accumulation of weapons of mass destruction, climate change and other…
Real Action Based on Comprehensive Plan to Resolve Survival Crisis Should be Top Priority
There is increasing concern among some of the most well-informed people and institutions of the world that the most important problems which together constitute a survival crisis are worsening. Of…
Why the World Needs a Big Course Correction at this Stage of the 21st Century
Two of the most important facts about the 21st century must be emphasized. Firstly, no other century in human history started with such serious, known, avoidable, man-made threats relating to…
Are We the Dinosaurs of the 21st Century?
Let’s admit it: We are indeed mad creatures. This should truly have been the time of our discontent. The northern hemisphere just experienced the hottest summer in recorded history, including month by…
Navigating the Polycrisis—Life in Turbulent Times
How can we explain the explosive emergence of global awareness of the polycrisis over the past year, 2022-2023? Three years ago, almost no one had heard of the polycrisis. What…
Polycrisis, Unraveling, Simplification, or Collapse: Coming Soon to a Planet Near You?
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the resulting disruption of multiple global supply chains, policy think tanks have increasingly adopted the term polycrisis to signify humanity’s…
Artificial Intelligence & The Polycrisis
Editor & Author’s Preface: This piece doesn’t explain itself much, nor argue effectively (with citations and footnotes), but speaks to those who have already come to understand the situation in —…
Navigating the Polycrisis–Life in Turbulent Times
How can we explain the explosive emergence of global awareness of the polycrisis over the past year, 2022-2023? Three years ago, almost no one had heard of the polycrisis. What…
Polycrisis? What Polycrisis?
The concept of ‘polycrisis’ is increasingly being used to designate the accumulation of compounding crises that human societies are facing, and that they are increasingly struggling to address and failing to…
Global Polycrisis as a Pathway for Economic Transition
This article is part of an ongoing collaboration between the United Nations Development Programme (Bureau for Program & Policy Support’s Strategic Innovation Unit & the Inclusive Growth/Chief Economist) and One…
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