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I was hoping to find this in the first paragraph or so, but ended up looking elsewhere -- hopefully this helps those who are as apparently unaware as I: "A glo
by lvturner 4y ago
I was hoping to find this in the first paragraph or so, but ended up looking elsewhere -- hopefully this helps those who are as apparently unaware as I:
"A global polycrisis occurs when crises in multiple global systems become causally entangled in ways that significantly degrade humanity's prospects. These interacting crises produce harms greater than the sum of those the crises would produce in isolation, were their host systems not so deeply interconnected"
https://cascadeinstitute.org/technical-paper/what-is-a-global-polycrisis/#:~:text=A%20global%20polycrisis%20occurs%20when,systems%20not%20so%20deeply%20interconnected https://cascadeinstitute.org/technical-paper/what-is-a-globa....
- refurb 4y agoThis seems like a definition that isn’t really needed?
- EdwardDiego 4y agoSeems like you'd be wrong.
- refurb 4y agoPlease explain? We'd had multiple, interdependent crises in the past, but apparently, until now, we were ok just calling them "multiple crises". What changed?
- ianai 4y agoThey’re pointing out nonlinear combinations of negatives from multiple crises. Economies of scale, to inappropriately borrow a term, in the wrong direction. The definition absolutely is needed.
- tuatoru 4y ago> Economies of scale Synergy is the word. The combined effect being greater than the sum of its parts.
- viscanti 4y ago"multiple crises" could be crises that are dependent or independent. "polycrises" tells the reader that the focus is on the subset of multiple crises that are dependent and likely have complex interaction effects.
- ElevenLathe 4y agoWhy do we need the word "automobile"? Can't we just say "horseless motorized carriage"? Why call it a "computer" instead of an "electric brain"?
- refurb 4y agoI expect polycrisis to go the way of "water closet".
- ElevenLathe 4y agoPersonally, I like William Gibson's coining of the "Jackpot."
- buscoquadnary 4y agoI appreciate the definition at first I thought this had to do with some sort of interaction between Southeast Asians and the Polynesians.
- jonny_eh 4y agoOr they were lacking in polymaths
- CountSessine 4y agoThanks for this. My first suspicion was that it had something to do with crypto.