Humanity is running the world in a way that is creating incredible dangers we are not managing well. That has to change. We’re collaborating with 10×100, an organization focused on urgent responses to climate change, and trying to create a set of standards or ways of doing things that respects the biophysical realities of the planet. The Center for Complexity is part of a global conversation about making policy decisions that don’t increase the risk of ending human civilization and that reduce that risk over time.
Tim Maly
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14
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14
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24
2023
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24
2023
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Aug
24
2023
How to resist cultic thinking in the end times
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10
2023
Trevor Hancock: A polycrisis is greater than the sum of its parts
by Trevor Hancock in the Times Colonist…The polycrisis, according to the UN and Cascade Institute, includes the climate crisis, war, extreme economic...
Aug
10
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How to deal with a world of polycrisis?
by Steffan Heuer in Think:Act Magazine….While the term is not new, polycrisis has taken on a new meaning and new urgency as governments, think tanks and ordinary...
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07
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What is the “Global Polycrisis” and how should journalists be covering it?
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Navigating polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate
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24
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Are these the end times?
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