Impact Trust • Working glossary
Planetary emergency
Big threats to Earth’s basic life-support systems.
Details
Our Take
Raises urgency, but can blur which concrete problems we are talking about and for whom. The more specific 'polycrisis' framing is usually more useful because it names the interconnection rather than just the scale.
Examples of Use
Scientists, UN, NGOs
Synonyms/Variants
Global emergency; Earth crisis; Existential emergency
Typical everyday wording
Threats to the planet's life-support systems.
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