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aburtch Oct 18, 2023

"But this isn’t a counsel of despair. There’s much we can do to defuse the polycrisis."

I would argue that there is not until we look at the aforementioned real driver of humanity’s traumas: relentless, predatory globalized #capitalism

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23920997/polycrisis-climate-pandemic-population-connectivity

A case for the polycrisis, explained

Lots of things are going wrong. Does that make it a polycrisis?

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@aburtch agreed! I find it astonishing how much focus is on social movements and surface level inequality but not on the underlying economic system that is driving it. It’s like putting a bandaid on a knife wound and hoping it stops the bleeding.