Living in the age of the polycrisis: how complex crises emerge and how humanities can confront them.
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Open in new tab Living in the age of the polycrisis: how complex crises emerge and how humanities can confront them. The popularity of the term polycrisis suggests a growing demand for new thinking about the world’s intersecting crises, in relationship with the concept of Anthropocene used to describe the most recent period in Earth’s history when human activity started to have a significant impact on the planet’s climate and ecosystems. Nowadays environmental , social and economic problems are too big and too intertwined and furthermore they change too fast to be managed by individual persons . At the heart of the technosphere we live in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are progressively taking control not only of our lives but also of our imagination. It is a world full of data, but data without a common vision are meaningless. We need a a new Copernican revolution that puts not just the man but human beings and their relationships at the center of our lives and not an infinite development in a finite space.
Alessio Malcevschi
University of Parma, Italy
Degree in Chemistry, PhD in Molecular Biology, Professor of “Food Sustainability” at the Department of Economics , Rector’s Delegate at RUS (Network of Universities for Sustainable Development), Representative of Parma University at the ASviS’s ( The Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development) “SDG2” table, curator of the UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Festival organized by Parma University .
