The document identifies eight “critical shifts” — emerging issues and potential threats that could amplify, accelerate and synchronize the polycrisis. These disruptive changes include the ongoing devastation of the natural world, competition for global resources, misinformation and diminishing trust in institutions, widening inequalities, mass forced displacement and the rapid advance of AI.
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