I've never thought deeply about exactly what people might mean when they talk about "the polycrisis". So I'm glad I got the chance, thanks to David Runciman doing an episode about it for his History of Bad Ideas series;
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-polycrisis
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#podcast#PastPresentFuture#HistoryOfBadIdeas#DavidRunciman#polycrisis
Runciman seems to interpret the polycrisis as a "council of despair"; a claim that everything is unmanageable complicated, so no useful action can be taken. But I think this misses the point.
I see "polycrisis" as the opposite of "The NWO". Or "Capitalism", when it's used as the lefty equivalent. As a conspiracy by capitalists in smoky backrooms, instead of a system of incentives that disproportionately benefit them.
It reminds us to take a systematic view, and work on multiple fronts.
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