Polycrisis

History holds too many examples of what happens when the masses suddenly wake up to a sense of overwhelming dread

Staring down the barrel of human-driven climate change, an astronomical cost of living, and a poor economic outlook, most people recognize that they are far closer in life to desperate refugees than they are to the politicians, war profiteers, and rapacious capitalists who create them.

The Age of Reorientation

“We have a problem with scale. The planetary crisis can seem impossible to grasp. But focusing on the local can feel limited. How do we work to a scale that feels manageable? There is a way of reorganising how we think about scale: the -shed. -sheds (from Old English scead) describe the natural boundaries between waterbodies. They are not

owing to the fact that behind the many interconnected problems of the metacrisis there is a deep ideological problem (i.e., a lack of unified narrative), metamodernism can be defined as a new collective value system1 that incorporates, contextualizes and transcends all previous value systems while resolving the conflict between them in an

From mythmaking to legal treaties to weaving to movement building, what knits these various examples together is their avoidance of single solutions to complex problems, instead enabling a pursuit of multiple different actions and wider systemic changes with long term, positive transformations