The Post Carbon Institute has recently published the report Welcome to the great unraveling. Navigating the polycrisis of environmental and social breakdown. The concept polycrisis points to a situation where crisis in multiple global systems becomes causally entangled in ways that significantly degrade humanitys prospects. The different crisis interact in ways which produce more harm than each crisis would have made, had it happened in isolation. The report claims that the current global environmental and social polycrisis is evidence that humanity is entering the Great Unraveling - a time of consequences in which human impact are compunding to threaten the very environmental and social systems that support modern human civilization. The report describes social challenges as poverty, inequality, racism and other forms of discrimination as consequences of environmental challenges and the following scarcity in many areas, and as related sy...
