Homeland Earth: A Manifesto for the New Millenium

This book contains the earliest use of the term polycrisis. Edgar Morin and Anne Brigitte Kern argue that “one is at a loss to single out a number one problem to which all others would be subordinated. There is no single vital problem, but many vital problems, and it is this complex intersolidarity of problems, antagonisms, crises, uncontrolled processes, and the general crisis of the planet that constitutes the number one vital problem” (p. 74). The authors highlight the importance of complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity in the world as potential sources of creativity and transformation.