What is the Metacrisis?
How do you solve a problem? Or at least try to. Well you have to understand the problem, right? Actually, FIRST, you have to recognise that there is a problem. We might think the problem is climate change, or inequality, or wars, or an increasing cost of living, and they are all problems. Collectively, along with all these other topics (plus a few more), they make up the Metacrisis. Feeding into, intertwining with, and accelerating each other.
We need to recognise the sheer scale and velocity, the interconnected nature of all these problems we face as a global interconnected society. We are on the brink of catastrophic change, and we aren’t doing anything to address it, let alone really even talking about it. The Metacrisis isn’t in our future, it’s unfolding now, we just haven’t noticed it yet. And unfortunately, we’re too busy to notice.
Regardless of our political views, or spiritual values, or financial assets, or any other way that we separate ourselves from one another, we are all going to be affected by this. It’s in everyone’s interest, it’s in the earth’s interests, that we pay attention to the Metacrisis, and do everything we can to “extend the glide”. To soften our landing.
I’m tired of hearing about Climate Change.
The good news is that I’m not here to argue about whether or not climate change is real. All you really need to do is pay attention to the world, and you can see the effects of climate change in the increasingly frequent weather events. Instead I hope to convey to you the scope and urgency of our predicament, because the climate has changed, but it’s only one piece in the puzzle that is the Metacrisis.
I’m not telling you this to be an alarmist or a doomer, I’m here to give you information, so that you can put the pieces together yourselves. I draw from as broad a sweep of legitimate sources and articles as I can, to get a good cross section, including The Guardian, United Nations, and Our World In Data among many others. Here in NZ, our online news barely gives a glance to global climate events, instead focusing on what are frankly trivial matters by comparison.
By downplaying the severity of the predicament we face, distracting each other, or busying ourselves in disputes with one another, we continue to fail to take action. Unfortunately we are so busy in our own lives that most of us don’t have, or take the time to look up and pay attention to the bigger picture, to the world that’s unravelling.
Globally, anything that we do now to improve our situation, is worth it, but we cannot undo what we have set in motion. The 350.org movement failed. Limiting warming to 1.5°C has effectively failed. Net zero is going to fail (for instance Air New Zealand has backtracked on its net zero pledge, and BP recently announced it intends to abandon its net zero pledge altogether, instead expanding production in the Middle East and the Gulf of Mexico). We’re already moving the goalposts to 2°C, as if that was always the target.
We are out of time.
Coming Soon!
2014
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2015
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2016
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2017
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