In what follows I detail how the climate conundrum is showing up for me at the moment, describe and offer links to my professional engagement with climate change, and reflect on how my understanding of the climate crisis led me to the metacrisis, which is my new professional beat. This is a longer post than usual and includes a short climate autobiography, but the ‘joyous struggle’ it discloses is close to my heart and professional purpose, so please bear with me as I try to make sense of it all.
Jonathan Rowson
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Aug
26
2024
New paper: Polycrisis Research & Action Roadmap
by the Cascade Institute, et al….The authors define the core characteristics of polycrisis (emergent harms, multiple causes, deep uncertainty, systemic context,...
Aug
10
2024
‘Polycrisis’ threatens planetary health; UN calls for innovative solutions
by Sean Mowbray in Mongabay…Environmental, technological and social challenges are colliding to create a global polycrisis. This confluence of issues is in turn...
Aug
05
2024
Are journalists reporting the global polycrisis?
by Gabi Mocatta in Earth Journalism …This study clearly establishes that the term ‘global polycrisis’ is not widely recognized, or used by...
Jul
25
2024
Second Renaissance: A time of civilizational crisis and awakening
by Sylvie Barbier, et al. in the whitepaper, The Second Renaissance is both a period and a movement: a “time between worlds”, and a growing movement of...
Jul
18
2024
The new hot wars
by Jeremy Brecher in Znetwork…The most blatant marker of the polycrisis is the burgeoning of war and preparation for war.
Jul
08
2024
Positive Pathways report
by Michael Lawrence and Megan Shipman …..The Cascade Institute’s analysis on positive pathways through polycrisis
Jul
08
2024
The view from Nairobi-Washington
by Tim Sahay and Kate Mackenzie in Phenomenal World…It is good for Southern elites to win such technology investments. But while the New Washington Consensus...
Jul
06
2024
The disruption nexus
by Roman Krznaric in aeon.com….Polycrisis. Metacrisis. Omnicrisis. Permacrisis. Call it what you like. We are immersed in an age of extreme turbulence and...
Jun
18
2024
Are we doomed? Here’s how to think about it
by Rivka Galchen in The New Yorker…..Climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear annihilation, biological warfare—the field of existential risk is a way to...
May
22
2024
A review of ‘navigating the polycrisis’: A map of collapse, utopia, and the many paths in between
by Ben Shread-Hewitt in Resilience.org…The Polycrisis is the breakdown of our future.