Stan Cox is a senior research fellow in Ecosphere Studies at The Land Institute. Among his books are Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing, The Path to a Livable Future: A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic, and The Green New Deal and Beyond. He is now writing the monthly In Real Time series on climate at City Lights Books. A plant geneticist by training and profession, he eventually began focusing on capitalism and the destructive growth upon which it depends and how to ensure sufficiency for all.
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by Dr. Michael Lawrence at The Cascade Institute….. In this framework, a global crisis arises when one or more fast-moving trigger events combines with slow-moving stresses to push a global system out of its established equilibrium and into a volatile and harmful state of disequilibrium. We then identify three causal pathways—common stresses, domino effects, and inter-systemic feedbacks—that can connect multiple global systems to produce synchronized crises.
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