Polycrisis

Working definitions

“the causal entanglement of crises in multiple global systems in ways that significantly degrade humanity’s prospects.”

— Lawrence, Homer-Dixon, Janzwood, Rockström, Renn & Donges, “Global polycrisis: the causal mechanisms of crisis entanglement”, Global Sustainability (2024)

The term was coined by Edgar Morin with Anne Brigitte Kern in Homeland Earth (1993; English 1999).

Polycrisis and metacrisis

“Much as symptoms signal an underlying illness, polycrisis points to metacrisis.” — Life Itself, metacrisis.info

See also Metacrisis.