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- Dec 2023
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it's daunting because they're 00:37:18 all happening simultaneously in a way people don't recognize they're all kind of integrated with each other and they and they're reinforcing each other it's people call this kind of perfect storm but they don't but the problem with the 00:37:30 language the perfect storm terminology is it sort of implies that each one of these things whether it's economic stress or climate change or political polarization rising authoritarianism 00:37:41 you know collapse of mammalian populations they're all kind of separate distinct problems but actually they're all they're all affecting each other at this point
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for: polycrisis, perfect storm, reinforcing feedbacks,
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- the polycrisis is a network of self-reinforcing and diverse crisis:
- political polarization
- war
- fossil fuel entrenchment and expansion
- precarity
- migration
- climate crisis
- extreme weather
- AI
- political polarization
- misinformation and interference of sovereign voting
- emergence of authoritarianism
- incorrect focus of effort - tinkering at the margins
- runaway inequality - wealth, racial, post colonial, gender
- dominance of capitalist wealth aspiration
- rapid change required for entire system
- sense of despair, hopelessness, anger, fear
- mass extinction
- climate departure
- increasing health burden
- runaway pollution
- lack of effective government regulation
- approaching planetary tipping points
- the "perfect storm" assumes that these crisis are not related, but they are all syncrhonizing through positive feedbacks -their self-reinforcing positive feedbacks amplify all of them together and it can reach a threshold beyond human institutions to be able to cope
- Commanding Hope or "Hope to" is critical for meeting these challenges
- the polycrisis is a network of self-reinforcing and diverse crisis:
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