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A brief history of extinction panics

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Defining polycrisis

Polycrisis refers to the current state characterized by multiple independent crises such as climate change, global inequality, pandemics like COVID-19, and changes brought by AI. These crises overlap and compound each other, making it harder to solve individually. Climate change complicates the resolution of global inequality, which is further complicated by AI. This concept highlights how the cascading effects of independent crises make it paradoxically more challenging to address any single one effectively, resulting in a situation where all problems seem to be exacerbating each other.

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