Across 2023, the awareness of a rising global multicrisis has led to ever more talk of a polycrisis, where the sum of parallel crises is adding up to more than their parts. Yet, only now, as this tough year ends, is attention turning to where we find hope in all these afflictions, and what we do to stop things from getting even worse.
At base, we face the tail of public debt, economic damage and systems breakdown caused by the world’s ’lockdown response’ to Covid-19. And, beside that row of hits, sits climate change, with our poles and glaciers melting, our sea levels rising and warming, and our productive land heating up and drying out against the backdrop of erratic seasons and storms.
