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- Dec 2023
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one thing we have noticed with these stresses is that uh from most of them we see these three 00:11:11 phenomena the stresses are amplifying accelerating and synchronizing uh simultaneously
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for: pernicious cascades - qualities, stats - pernicious cascade, synchronized crisis
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stats - pernicious cascades - climate change
- Pernicious cascades - qualities
- amplifying
- global mean temp
- in 2000: 0.72 Deg C warmer than pre-industrial (1850)
- in 2020 1.2 Deg C warmer than pre-industrial
- global mean temp
- accelerating
- warming per decade:
- 1970 to 2010 - 0.18 Deg C / decade
- 2010 to 2040 - 0.27 Deg C / decade
- warming per decade:
- syncrhonizing
- many systems are becoming unstable:
- higher inflation
- higher levels of precarity
- higher levels of inequality
- destabilizing climate / increase in extreme weather events
- geopolitical conflicts
- political polarization
- misinformation
- major migration
- Cascade institute does not view these as random events - not a set of coincidence or "perfect storm"
- instead, invisible synchronization and causality between events
- our research reveals the invisible connections
- many systems are becoming unstable:
- amplifying
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the Cascade Institute we're interested in two kinds of Cascades
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for: cascades - two types, pernicious cascades, virtuous cascades, definition - pernicious cascade, definition - virtuous cascade
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definition - pernicious cascade
- knock on effects between systems that produce a level of significant harm to society
- definition - virtuous cascade
- knock on effects between systems that produce beneficial impacts for society
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