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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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Multidisciplinary Teams Seek Ways to Mitigate Existential Threats

This article profiles academic centres and initiatives working to analyse and mitigate existential and global catastrophic risks, including the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at the University of Cambridge, the Existential Risk Laboratory (XLab) at the University of Chicago, and the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative. It highlights that these centres bring together

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The Fifth Food Mega-shock in 20 Years? How to Stop these Crises for Good

This article argues that the disruption of the Strait of Hormuz is driving a fifth global food mega-shock in less than two decades by simultaneously disrupting energy supplies, fertilizer markets, food production, and humanitarian assistance. The author explains how these interconnected pressures are unfolding in cascading phases, producing rising food prices and increasing hunger over

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Temporal Turbulence in the Polycrisis: Editors’ Introduction to the Special Section

This introduction to the special issue “Temporal Turbulence in the Polycrisis” examines how the contemporary polycrisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and ongoing colonial legacies challenges conventional understandings of time and temporality. The authors argue that environmental crises cannot be fully understood as technical or future-oriented problems but must be situated within the long historical

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Nanostructured Interfaces Integrated with Unsupervised Intelligence to Mitigate Global Polycrisis Complexities

This review argues that nanostructured sensors can play an important role in addressing the polycrisis, including climate instability, antimicrobial resistance, pandemics, and emerging technological disruptions, but that their effectiveness is limited by the complexity and scale of the data they generate. The authors propose unsupervised machine intelligence as a critical bridge between advanced sensing materials

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