{"id":35254,"date":"2025-03-06T16:56:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/are-we-living-through-a-polycrisis-or-is-it-just-history-happening\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T16:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:56:55","slug":"are-we-living-through-a-polycrisis-or-is-it-just-history-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/are-we-living-through-a-polycrisis-or-is-it-just-history-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we living through a \u2018polycrisis\u2019 or is it \u2018just history happening\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The term \u2018polycrisis\u2019 has gained traction as we face one disaster after another. It\u2019s overwhelming \u2013 but diagnosing the catastrophe is the first step to addressing it<\/p>\n<p>Two months into 2025, the sense of dread is palpable. In the US, the year began with a terrorist attack; then came the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/wildfires\">fires<\/a> that ravaged a city, destroying lives, homes and livelihoods. An extremist billionaire came to power and began proudly dismantling the government with a chainsaw. Once-in-a-century disasters are happening more like once a month, all amid devastating wars and on the heels of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The word \u201cunprecedented\u201d has become ironically routine. It feels like we\u2019re stuck in a relentless cycle of calamity, with no time to recover from one before the next begins.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/06\/polycrisis-disasters-politics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term \u2018polycrisis\u2019 has gained traction as we face one disaster after another. It\u2019s overwhelming \u2013 but diagnosing the catastrophe is the first step to addressing it Two months into 2025, the sense of dread is palpable. In the US, the year began with a terrorist attack; then came the fires that ravaged a city, &#8230; <a title=\"Are we living through a \u2018polycrisis\u2019 or is it \u2018just history happening\u2019?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/are-we-living-through-a-polycrisis-or-is-it-just-history-happening\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Are we living through a \u2018polycrisis\u2019 or is it \u2018just history happening\u2019?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}