![[citation.base|no-toolbar]] >[!abstract] >You’re not alone if it seems there are multiple challenges affecting the world simultaneously — it can be summed up by the word ”polycrisis”. First coined in the 1970s, the word has been popularized by the historian Adam Tooze to describe the coming together of multiple crises. Here, Tooze explains what the concept is about and how it can actually help to name it.