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Illuminating Limits: Educating for Postgrowth Futures in a Time of Polycrisis

The authors examine how environmental education is being reconfigured in an era of polycrisis, urging a move beyond reductive, growth-driven and technocratic paradigms. They advocate for a postgrowth educational approach that embraces ecological overshoot, social unravelling, and the systemic limits of industrial modernity. Drawing on heuristics rooted in complexity science, disaster studies, land economics, and […]

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We Are Living in a Time of Polycrisis. If You Feel Trapped – You’re Not Alone

The author explores the psychological toll of living through a polycrisis, characterised by the convergence of multiple, compounding global threats. Drawing on insights from psychologists and anthropologists, the article examines how radical uncertainty erodes individuals’ capacity to envision the future, resulting in paralysis, disconnection, and diminished long-term planning. The piece concludes by outlining strategies for

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Funding Community Resilience in a Polycrisis: Exploring a Human Learning Systems (+)-Based Approach

The authors explore how the polycrisis requires a rethinking of funding mechanisms to build community resilience. They argue that traditional, risk-averse, outcome-based models are ill-suited to address interconnected crises, and propose the Human Learning Systems (+) model—an approach that enables funders and grantees to consider system-scale elements such as local economic drivers and political conditions,

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Welcome to the Age of Chaos

In this analysis, Foreign Policy presents its annual foresight of the top global risks for 2026. Drawing on the authors’ forecasting experience at the National Intelligence Council, the report outlines ten interconnected threats, including economic crisis, the dissolution of global order, disruptive AI trajectories, and accelerating climate decline. The authors argue that the world is

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A polycrisis has shattered our world this year. But with care, we can put it back together

The author reflects on 2025 as the year plagued by social, economic, environmental, technological and institutional challenges, a period of polycrisis that created overwhelming pressure and global instability. She describes how democratic norms have declined, inequalities have widened and the liberal international order has splintered, leaving societies emotionally exhausted and increasingly divided into “us v

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More Than a Buzzword? Mapping Interpretations of the ‘Polycrisis’

This article critically examines the concept of polycrisis, tracing its evolution from rhetorical buzzword to an emerging analytical lens in sustainability and crisis research. Based on a Q-methodology study involving 50 experts, the authors identify four distinct framings of polycrisis: as analytically tractable, as networked shocks, as a global governance challenge, and as requiring conceptual

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World of Woes: How the Global Polycrisis is Shaping Canada’s Youth

This article explores why young Canadians are increasingly reporting feelings of despair amid what experts describe as a global polycrisis. Drawing on personal testimonies, it reflects on how a generation shaped by constant exposure to global tragedies, political uncertainty, and systemic challenges amplified by social media is experiencing heightened anxiety and hopelessness. Unlike past eras

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Risk Outlook 2026

The 2026 Risk Outlook examines the rapidly evolving global risk environment, where threats are accelerating, overlapping, and placing new pressures on organisational resilience. Drawn from interviews with 860 senior risk decision‑makers across 94 countries, the report identifies ten top drivers of global risk: geopolitical tensions, cyber‑crime, political and economic instability, regulatory uncertainty, extreme weather, mental‑health

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