Useful word for our time: polycrisis. "the interplay between the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the energy, cost-of-living and climate crises [...] where disparate crises interact such that the overall impact far exceeds the sum of each part." weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/pol…
This is why 'polycrisis' is a useful way of looking at the world right now
Coined in the 1970s, ‘polycrisis’ has been popularized by the historian Adam Tooze to describe the interaction of multiple crises at once. Here’s what you need to know.World Economic Forum
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