According to many historians, it is currently the best time to be alive in all of human history. We live longer, we are on average wealthier, we eat better, and are more educated. Yet, many of us wake up each morning overwhelmed by the current or looming crises of our time. Climate change, threats to democracies across the world, wars, a growing wealth gap, deep disparities in health and well-being, mass extinction, mass migration – the list goes on. These large, evolving, and often interconnected, crises are known as a polycrisis.

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