Addressing critiques of the polycrisis concept from the political right and left, Thomas Homer-Dixon argues that the world is in a polycrisis generated by novel and unprecedented conditions, as measured by total human energy consumption, Earth’s energy imbalance, the human population’s total biomass, and global connectivity. He then highlights the interconnected nature of contemporary problems stemming from the heightened homogeneity and connectivity of global systems, and recommends we reconfigure these systemic features to counteract the global polycrisis.
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