Month: August 2023

Resilience deficit 2. Increasing drought risk and food insecurity

As the increasingly severe global consequences of environmental devastation crash through social, economic, and political systems, more attention is being paid to their interrelationships, the multiple polycrises. This continues the global systemic risk and polycrisis series documented in the Global Assessment Special Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2023 (GAR). The report discusses the risks that … Continue reading Resilience deficit 2. Increasing drought risk and food insecurity →

Understanding Risk to People, the Planet and Prosperity

This is a continuation of the series related to the Global Assessment Special Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2023. We are in a time of accelerating, interconnected disasters, i.e., polycrisis. A category four hurricane just made landfall in Florida; heat records are broken nearly daily around the world. Glaciers are melting, huge wildfires are burning … Continue reading Understanding Risk to People, the Planet and Prosperity →

Wind-Words. Into the world of wind

Continuing this series about wind-words, I'll explain how this writing impacts me. I'm always looking for ways to express and share spirituality. That began when I was about 8 years old and had a spiritual experience at my Quaker meeting, Bear Creek Friends. For about the past ten years I've written nearly daily, exploring spirituality … Continue reading Wind-Words. Into the world of wind →

Speaking Wind-Words and Assimilation

This is the continuation of yesterday's post, Speaking Wind-Words. I was struck by the words of N. Scott Momady, the Kiowa novelist who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969. "Can you hear the voice of the wind? In what direction is it telling you to go?" I don't like to interrupt when I … Continue reading Speaking Wind-Words and Assimilation →

GAR Special Report 2023

Recent articles on the website have focused on global disaster risk reduction. In particular, about the work of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). UNDRR periodically publishes Global Assessment Reports on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR). Previous writings on this site have been related to GAR 2022. https://www.undrr.org/gar/gar2022-our-world-risk-gar Mapping Resilience for the Sustainable … Continue reading GAR Special Report 2023 →

UNDRR Strategic Framework

I created this Polycrisis Center website as a repository for and as a way to share what I'm learning about polycrisis. One of the most hopeful things I've been learning about is the extensive work of the United Nations. So much work that it is kind of overwhelming. Hence my wandering through the information. The … Continue reading UNDRR Strategic Framework →

Risk of societal collapse

Global chaos is on full display. Not only related to environmental devastation but also the increasing dysfunction of social, economic, and political systems. Millions of people who tried so hard to ignore these disasters are now confronted with irrefutable evidence. And so are now demanding immediate solutions and discovering there are no quick fixes. They … Continue reading Risk of societal collapse →

World Water Week

World Water Week 2023: 20 –24 August World Water Week is going on now. You can register for free online access here: https://worldwaterweek.org/tickets Seeds of change: Innovative Solutions for a Water-Wise World What ideas and innovations will we need in a more unstable, water-scarce world? How can water be a tool to address problems like … Continue reading World Water Week →

Water, Peace, and Security e-learning course

I've written a number of posts about the Water, Peace, and Security (WPS) organization. (See: https://polycrisis.center/?s=water+peace+security ). The previous post was about Niger, one of the countries targeted by the Frexus project that WPS is involved with, relating to the Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus. (See: https://www.water-energy-food.org/frexus-improving-security-and-climate-resilience-in-a-fragile-context-through-the-water-energy-food-nexus ) To help understand the polycrisis of water, energy and … Continue reading Water, Peace, and Security e-learning course →