>[!abstract] >**Polycrisis** is a term coined in the 1970s by French theorist of complexity Edgar Morin and later popularized by historian Adam Tooze to describe the simultaneity of multiple crises whose overall impact far exceeds the sum of each part. >[!quote] >If you’ve been feeling confused and as though everything is impacting on you all at the same time, this is not a personal, private experience. This is actually a collective experience (Tooze, 2023, as cited in [[Whiting & Park (2023)|Whiting & Park, 2023]]). ## Criticism [[Cant (2025)]] has criticized Adam Tooze’s perspective as being oblivious to the class aspects of what constitutes meaningful crises. ## Global polycrisis ![[Polycrisis.png]] [Illustration: A map of interconnected risks from [[World Economic Forum (2023)]]] >[!related] >- **North** (upstream): — >- **West** (similar): — >- **East** (different): — >- **South** (downstream): —