It is Now 85 Seconds to Midnight
John Mecklin (ed.)
This statement from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sets the Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been, signaling an intensifying risk of global…
Polycrisis Resource Library
The Polycrisis Resource Library is a growing collection of media that help to understand polycrisis, develop strategies to address polycrisis, and build a field of polycrisis analysis.
Illuminating Limits: Educating for Postgrowth Futures in a Time of Polycrisis
Cary Campbell, Thomas Hoeller and Marion Benkaiouche
The authors examine how environmental education is being reconfigured in an era of polycrisis, urging a move beyond reductive, growth-driven and technocratic paradigms. They advocate for a postgrowth educational approach…
Global Catastrophic Risks 2026
Lewis Day(ed.)
This report presents the Global Challenges Foundation’s assessment of the most pressing catastrophic risks facing humanity today. It identifies five key threats: catastrophic climate change, ecological collapse, weapons of mass…
How Can We Build Prosperity within Planetary Boundaries?
André Hoffmann, Johan Rockström, Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Sumant Sinha, Ramon Laguarta and Andrew Forrest
This session from the 56th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum explores how to achieve prosperity within planetary boundaries amid accelerating climate and ecological crises. With a keynote by…
Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond Our Hydrological Means in the Post-Crisis Era
United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health (UNU-INWEH)
This report declares that the world has entered an era of Global Water Bankruptcy—a persistent post-crisis condition in which long-term water use has exceeded renewable inflows and safe depletion limits,…
Immigration, War, Economic Collapse: Will the Global Order Change in 2026?
Glenn Carle and Atul Singh
This article presents Fair Observers’s 2026 geopolitical outlook using a Social, Political, Economic, Religious, and Military framework. The authors argue that overlapping global stresses, immigration pressures, democratic dysfunction, economic fragility,…
We Are Living in a Time of Polycrisis. If You Feel Trapped – You’re Not Alone
Theresa MacPhail
The author explores the psychological toll of living through a polycrisis, characterised by the convergence of multiple, compounding global threats. Drawing on insights from psychologists and anthropologists, the article examines…
Undemocratic States, Accelerated Disaster: Can We Reverse the Economic Incentives that Are Killing the Planet?
Sabrina Fernandes
The author explores how authoritarianism, imperialism, and global capitalism converge to deepen the planetary polycrisis, accelerating ecological breakdown and democratic erosion. Arguing that prevailing economic incentives favour perpetual war and…
Funding Community Resilience in a Polycrisis: Exploring a Human Learning Systems (+)-Based Approach
Gary White, Milja Franck, Eddie Harris, Olive Ezike, Mubaraq Adewale Razaq and Itunuoluwa Odutayo
The authors explore how the polycrisis requires a rethinking of funding mechanisms to build community resilience. They argue that traditional, risk-averse, outcome-based models are ill-suited to address interconnected crises, and…
Global Risks Report 2026: Geopolitical and Economic Risks Rise in New Age of Competition
World Economic Forum
The Global Risks Report 2026 explores how a new competitive world order is reshaping global risks across domains. Over the next two years, geoeconomic confrontation is identified as the most severe risk,…
About the Resource Library
The Polycrisis Resource Library includes resources that:
- Comment on the polycrisis as a concept and as a present global reality
- Undertake similar analysis using different—but related—concepts
- Analyze crisis interactions among multiple global systems
Though not exhaustive, the Library strives to present a diverse representation of views on different aspects of the polycrisis discussion, and will be updated as that discussion evolves. Search for resources with the keyword search bar, or by using the drop-down menus to filter for type of resource, global systems addressed, and key themes.