📝 More than a buzzword? Mapping interpretations of the ‘polycrisis’.
I was initially skeptical of the usefulness of term 'polycrisis', but its original (1999) meaning linking "ecological degradation, economic turbulence, social fragmentation, and political dysfunction" does seem useful, albeit challenging to study.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-025-01790-9
#Sustainability #Polycrisis #Interdisciplinary #ComplexSystems #OpenAccess
#inequality #exploitation #politics #democracy #resistance
Oxfam Int 19 January 2026
Resisting the Rule of the Rich
Defending Freedom Against Billionaire Power
https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/resisting-rule-rich
#climate #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #polycrisis
#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review #inequality #exploitation #psychopathy #AntisocialDisorder #PsychiatricDisorder #politics #democracy #resistance @paulbeckwith
Paul introduces the new #Oxfam Report issued ahead of the #Davos #billionaires meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIlM1cTf7gU
#climate #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #polycrisis
#ScienceTalk #overshoot #economy #ecology #HumanExceptionalism #ParasiticGrowths #degrowth
Dr. #MuhammadIttefaq interviews Dr. #WilliamRees
"You cannot continue to deplete essential resources.
At some point it comes back to bite you."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZnnvH7FgBw
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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Consequences of our collective "Big Shrug"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJIDvwwPb1Q
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis #EcosystemCollapse #systemcollapse #ecocide #fossilfuels #Co2 #Co2Emissions #methane #GreenhouseGases #KeepitInTheGround
#Actuaries #globalWarming #economy #society #insurance #RiskAssessment
Parasol Lost: Recovery plan needed: Global risk management for human prosperity
by University of Exeter and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries:
#climate #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #polycrisis
RE: https://mastodon.social/@paulbeckwith/115924590240311708
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Sir Isaac Newton ESP* is on to support us today, this is a really dire report explained by Paul ó.ò
(*Emotional Support Puppy)
#climate #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #polycrisis
Als je het mij vraagt is stap 1 om de #polycrisis op te lossen heel eenvoudig: het boek lezen 😂
Ik heb net het boek uit 'Geld genoeg, maar niet voor jou' van Thomas Bollen. Het bevestigt mijn vermoeden dat ons huidige geldstelsel verantwoordelijk is voor onze #polycrisis en dat we in een lobbycratie leven en niet in een democratie.
Following micro trend of psychologists & commentators noting growing sense people can't envision plausible, hopeful future, trapped in present anxieties rather than future plans. Psychological stagnation rather than stress. Coverage frames emotional distress as fixable, medical. Nuance of futures losing salience subtle, early indication of existential crisis embedded in lived experience.
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/jan/14/new-year-polycrisis-psychology-feeling-trapped #polycrisis
From the Post Carbon Institute:
Our first live, online event of the year, Nourishing a Bioregional Economy, happens in just a couple weeks so we’ve pulled together a list articles to help gather our thoughts for the conversation.
Everything the oligarchy is doing is about the coming Climate Collapse and Resource Wars.
One way or another it all ties back to the reality they know good and well is coming.
They don't want DeGrowth b/c they want to keep living like kings while everyone else is living as serfs. Or slaves.
They don't want a world where all get their fair share. They want a world with nobody else in it.
#ClimateCrisis #PolyCrisis #Economy #DeGrowth #Sustainability #Community
#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review #ClimateSummary 2025 @paulbeckwith
(Ahem.)
(Excuse me for a moment.)
(😭😭😭)
Now let's go out there everybody and join forces to get this climate action going!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O0mAlfhR3E
#climate #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #polycrisis
#OfficeHours #WeatherWest #DanielSwain #NCAR #weather @weatherwest
Update on the fight to save the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research from dismantling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T0q_PfJV5g
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
#ocean #methane #GreenhouseGases
Methane chasers: Hunting a climate-changing gas seeping from Earth’s seafloor
#climate #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #polycrisis
#ocean #methane #GreenhouseGases #Antarctic
Original open access article
Seabrook et al. 01 October 2025, Nat Commun 16, 8740
Antarctic seep emergence and discovery in the shallow coastal environment
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63404-3
#climate #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #polycrisis
RE: https://mastodon.social/@paulbeckwith/115895192677896581
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Paul updates on the causes, amount, fate and effects of methane bubbling out of the ocean floors
#climate #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #polycrisis
"We don’t really think about our future – we remember it",
said Dr Hal Hershfield, who studies how humans think about time and how that influences our emotions and behaviors.
When we daydream or envision ourselves at a later point, we essentially create a memory.
We then use these memories to construct our ideas about the future.
This process is called “episodic future thinking”;
it supports our decision-making, emotional regulation and ability to plan.
The type of radical uncertainty generated during times of crisis,
where all the factors that might affect future events or outcomes are unknowable in advance,
interferes with our ability to recall those futures.
That makes it harder to predict what will happen and makes calculating accurate probabilities feel nearly impossible.
Humans have been here before, Hershfield reminded me.
For example, people living through the Cuban missile crisis had no clear way of knowing if they
– or the world itself
– would survive.
“What feels very different in the present moment,” Hershfield said,
“is that it feels like it’s coming from multiple fronts.
It’s everything from political uncertainty in the US and elsewhere,
health insecurity from the very fresh memory of a global pandemic,
job insecurity from AI,
geopolitical insecurity,
to environmental insecurity.”
All these crises are happening contemporaneously,
and because they interact with each other, their effects pile up.
Social scientists refer to these stacked crises as a #polycrisis.
During a polycrisis, radical uncertainty becomes rife.
if you’re feeling overwhelmed and anxious about what might happen, Hershfield suggests that it’s better to refocus on events that will most likely happen.
This makes it easier to remember the future self we envisioned and plan accordingly.
“People who suffer real tragedy and trauma typically recover more quickly than they expect to
and often return to their original level of happiness, or something close to it.
That’s the good news – we are a hardy species, even though we don’t know this about ourselves.
