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Africa’s Greater Horn Region Is Facing a Looming Polycrisis Fueled by Conflict, Prices, Climate and Disease

This article argues that the Greater Horn of Africa is facing a looming polycrisis driven by the interaction of climate extremes, violent conflict, disease outbreaks, and rising food and fertiliser prices, compounded by weakening humanitarian capacity. The authors contend that these overlapping shocks are mutually reinforcing rather than additive, increasing the risk of famine, displacement, […]

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Polycrisis and Regeneration: Latin America Facing the Opportunity to Build New Futures

This article argues that Latin America occupies a distinctive but tension-filled position in the global polycrisis, holding ecologically strategic territories such as the Amazon, the Andean systems, and major wetlands while sustaining economies heavily dependent on extractive models that pressure those same systems. The author contends that climate change, biodiversity loss, soil degradation, and pollution

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Unlearning Modernity: Remaking Science Education in the Anthropocene

This comment argues that science education remains rooted in modernist assumptions of control, separability, and human exceptionalism, even as it is often framed as a response to the Anthropocene, despite emerging scientific fields increasingly emphasising relationality, uncertainty, and more-than-human forms of intelligence. Drawing on developments in areas such as holobiont biology, quantum science, and anticolonial

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Managing Foreign Policy Complexity under Polycrisis: A Conceptual Analysis of Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence

This paper argues that the polycrisis exceeds the analytical capacity of traditional diplomatic institutions. The author contends that the ability to manage complexity has become an important source of geopolitical advantage, though the polycrisis has not replaced the older logics of expansion and dominance. The paper examines how artificial intelligence can strengthen the analytical and

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Scorched Earth: Climate Adaptation on a Boiling Planet

This essay argues that climate adaptation is becoming an increasingly urgent complement to emissions reduction as the impacts of global warming intensify, while cautioning that adaptation cannot take precedence over mitigation. Drawing on recent heatwaves, floods, and other climate extremes, the authors show how rising temperatures are exposing infrastructure vulnerabilities, increasing mortality, and exacerbating social

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Telegram and Disinformation: A Systematic Review of Toxic Content in the Age of Polycrisis

This systematic review examines 34 studies on Telegram and disinformation, arguing that the uncertainty and instability associated with the polycrisis have increased the prominence of semi-regulated platforms as hubs for misinformation. The authors identify the dominant themes in the literature, including the Russo-Ukrainian War, COVID-19, political propaganda, conspiracy theories, hate speech, and platform governance, while

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Polycrisis, Metacrisis, Systemic Risk: A Definitional Field Guide to the Reality of Everything

This blog post presents a short field guide to the definitions of global catastrophic risk, systemic risk, polycrisis, and metacrisis, arguing that the terms are frequently used interchangeably but that they describe distinct layers of humanity’s predicament. The author organises the definitions as a chain of four questions: what could go badly wrong? (global catastrophic

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The Global Justice Report: A Plan for Equality & Prosperity Within Planetary

The Global Justice Report proposes a fully quantified plan for grounding human development and equality in planetary habitability, tracing an economically and ecologically consistent transition path from 2026 to 2100. The authors argue that reconciling planetary habitability with high well-being for all is possible, but only through an integrated strategy that simultaneously combines fast decarbonisation

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The Impact of Polycrisis on GPNs—a Focus on the EU’s Trade Policy Response to the Climate Crisis

This paper explores how policy responses to the polycrisis seek to reshape Global Production Networks, encouraging new forms of decoupling and recoupling. The author focuses on the EU’s trade policy responses to the climate crisis, especially carbon tariffs and the deforestation regulation. These new measures represent a shift from traditional trade policy and a conscious

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