The Good News Hidden inside Today’s ‘Polycrisis’

The article considers the novelty and utility of the polycrisis concept, alongside the difficulties of addressing the polycrisis. It concludes that “the growing use of the term polycrisis is in itself encouraging. It demonstrates that, although the problems that form the current polycrisis are neither new nor surprising, our perception of them is changing. A need for a new word to label and articulate a problem implies that a new kind of solution will also be required.”