How We Averted The Polycrisis
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Edward Hopper Funnel of Trawler 1924 Good thing India didn’t join the sanctions, explains Andrew Korybko. Maybe there’s a lesson in ther
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What’s Behind the Green Door?
https://genius.com/Shakin-stevens-green-door-lyrics
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spiraling unrest
military interventions,
large-scale refugee flows
boycott
the debt-beleaguered
newly food-insecure
Genocide/depopulation
lost of control of the narrative
———What is a global polycrisis?
And how is it different from a systemic risk?Michael Lawrence, Scott Janzwood, and Thomas Homer-Dixon
Technical Paper #2022-4 Version Number: 2.0 September 16, 2022
This discussion paper argues that the concept of “global polycrisis” provides a necessary and productive framework with which to understand and address major problems afflicting humanity today. A global polycrisis occurs when crises in multiple global systems become causally entangled in ways that significantly degrade humanity’s prospects. These interacting crises produce harms greater than the sum of those the crises would produce in isolation, were their host systems not so deeply interconnected.
The paper elaborates several important features of this definition, compares it to other authors’ use of the term, and distinguishes it from the related concept of systemic risk.
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The Cascade Institute is a Canadian research center that addresses the full range of humanity’s converging environmental, economic, political, technological, and health crises. Using advanced methods to map and model complex global systems, we analyze the interactions between systemic risks, anticipate future crises and opportunities, and develop high-leverage interventions in social systems.
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https://chalkboard.cascadeinstitute.org/
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——————Both India and Turkey benefit from being at the crossroads between power blocs, facilitating “forbidden” trade, and taking a cut.
Erdogan and Modi have their own personal power interests, in general alignment with national interests, but both are tricky and willing to cause harm if it suits their interests.
They are power-players in history. Of the two, Modi always makes me more uneasy, seeming fundamentally unprincipled, except in his thirst for power. (YMMV)What is a global polycrisis? “a productive framework with which to understand and address major problems afflicting humanity today.”
Translation: “to understand and address major problems WE ARE INTENTIONALLY CAUSING humanity today.”
Since we’re causing them for no reason at all except Greed and Power, it’s ridiculously easy to STOP causing them. Like the Club of Rome, this isn’t an organic diagnosis, it’s a WAR PLAN. Like the Club of Rome, they use computer models? Really? Computer Models haven’t been right once in my lifetime. Remember how HIV was going to stop all sex and kill everyone? Japan was going to take over the solar system? Oil was going to run out by now instead of new 50-year pipelines being built every month? Manhattan would be underwater? We’d run out of food? Libya and California would become deserts and have no flash floods there? We’d have less food in Russia and Canada? The polar bears would be extinct and there was no snow? Well Geez, if you took the #Opposite of all those things, you’d be right.
Every day: is there literally ANYTHING that can discredit someone? Anything? Riding on a pedo plane 40 times? Going out to see your mistress maskless after your prediction of 6 billion dead from Covid fails? Taking millions from foreign governments? Taking hundred millions from corporations? Killing half a million gay guys with a drug you make the patent on? Anything?
Trying “to understand and address major problems WE ARE INTENTIONALLY CAUSING humanity today.”
You can pretend they’re are legitimate, independent countries, all you want. You can pretend voting repub or demo in jewsa will make a difference. Rothschild $ rules the world and what is happening now, the destruction of the Chrixstian West was planned over 100 years ago. This whole hamasjew thing is a fuckin psyop. like all the other psyops, hammered into empty heads by television. Read the Protocols, they told you what they will do and laugh in your face as they do it. There is only 1 way out of this jewmoney construct worldtakover monstrosity…become a bigger sonofabitch
No, @Celticbiker, that is NOT the only way out. The actual way out requires bigger balls than that. Grow a pair, big talker, and then maybe we can talk. Meanwhile, every time you advocate hatred and mistreatment as any kind of “solution” then you can expect me to talk to you about it, coward.
OK, so we have this neologism “polycrisis,” which is properly complexity-aware. Let’s not get too jargoned-up on ourselves, as we have a well-established word that has even better resonances already: “predicament.”
D Benton Smith said
No, @Celticbiker, that is NOT the only way out. The actual way out requires bigger balls than that. Grow a pair, big talker, and then maybe we can talk. Meanwhile, every time you advocate hatred and mistreatment as any kind of “solution” then you can expect me to talk to you about it, coward.
What snake oil are you selling? What are you advocating or is it a secret that only you know? Come on Smith, speed up that brain and produce the solution you failed to detail or even name. It is not like you to hide your light under a busshel, so I have to assume it is a work in progress, your light is not yet lit, it is out. And what is this about a coward, at least celticbiker has the nuts to say it as he sees it, meanwhile you wait for your noggin to warm up and do some work.
Read the essay and immediately thought about Dr D’s theory related to the control of access to fuel oils being the impetus behind global hegemonies both fighting wars and seeding “climage change” loretype into the noosphere. Seems to me the essay’s interesting claim is that consuming oil is what saved the fragile confederacy of “The West”/”The North”-oppressed nations, because the act of becoming a consumer decreased the competitiveness of other already established consumers, faciliating greater ease of consumption for all players, and reducing the competitive strengths of the already failing “West”/”North”. But isn’t this pretty much a “free market” logicmantra, a series of causality claims where greater participation of peoples in a market encourages even greater facilitation of participation by all in that market? Does this mean if I support “the global South” against a hegemonic “global West” I am in effect for free markets? And, by enabling free market access we enrich the lives of the poorest and most desperate?
Is Korybko one of those “cryptocapitalists” my college philosophy professors warned me about? (I’m supposed to gesture the apotropaic sign to Avert if he is.)
Also, D Benton Smith tells Celticbiker that “the actual way out” is not to be a “bigger sonofabitch” but to have “bigger balls.” But what did Celticbiker actually mean by being a sonofabitch, such that D Benton Smith thinks that’s irreality and reality is to grow testicles (or what else are the sorts of “balls” he’s referring to?) —but then what does that mean? What does it mean to have big testicles, or to have them at all? What does it mean to grow large and have a female dog for mother? How does insulting your own mother remove a person from a “jewmoney construct worldtakover monstrosity”? Why are you aging men so obsessed with genitals and size-related functioning that your avowed moral values rely on such crude and ambiguous metaphors?
You really lose all moral highground, talking about acting upon world-spanning conflicts of great strategic and spiritual depths orchestrated by networks of financially and ideologically bound agents and actors, when your exhortations to one another involve growing bigger genitals.
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