![]() ![]() Constituting it are three volatile and interacting strands: the destabilizing planetary pressures and inequalities of the Anthropocene, the pursuit of sweeping societal transformations to ease those pressures and the widespread and intensifying polarization. A new “uncertainty complex” is emerging, never before seen in human history. Uncertainty is not new, but its dimensions are taking ominous new forms today. Together, they are fuelling a cost-of-living crisis felt around the world, painting a picture of uncertain times and unsettled lives. Record-breaking temperatures, fires, storms and floods sound the alarm of planetary systems increasingly out of whack. War in Ukraine and elsewhere has created more human suffering. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, having driven reversals in human development in almost every country, continues to spin off variants unpredictably.
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