Impact Trust • Working glossary
Causal entanglement
The web of cause-and-effect connections between different crises that makes them interact and worsen each other.
Details
Our Take
Precise but abstract. Core to the polycrisis framework. The concept matters because it challenges the institutional habit of treating each crisis as separate and addressable in isolation.
Examples of Use
Cascade Institute, polycrisis research
Synonyms/Variants
Crisis interconnection; Compounding crises
Typical everyday wording
How crises are tangled together
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