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Historian Adam Tooze discusses the concept of polycrisis — multiple interconnected global crises creating feedback loops that make each individual crisis harder to solve.
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Highlights
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The polycrisis is not multiple separate crises — it is one interconnected meta-crisis
Tooze argues that climate change, pandemic aftershocks, war in Ukraine, financial instability, and political polarization are not independent events but interconnected systems feeding back into each other.•
The economic history of the present is being written in real time — and most people are missing the narrative
Tooze argues that we are living through an economic transformation as significant as the 1970s oil shocks or the 2008 financial crisis, but the narrative hasnt crystallized yet because we are inside it.Was this useful?