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  • Post-Doctoral Fellow and Polycrisis Lead, Cascade Institute, Royal Roads University and University of Waterloo, University of Waterloo
‘Permacrisis’ is Collins Dictionary’s 2022 word of the year, but polycrisis is a more accurate term to describe the world’s ongoing crises and how they’re interacting with one another. (Pixabay)

‘Polycrisis’ may be a buzzword, but it could help us tackle the world’s woes

Michael Murray Lawrence, University of Waterloo

What’s a polycrisis? We’re in one, and greed and power are undoubtedly worsening it, but our knowledge remains poor. Experts know a lot about individual risks and crises, but not how they interact.

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