Stress (polycrisis context)

Intuitive once distinguished from the everyday meaning of the word. Like declining economic growth or rising temperatures. Intuitive once distinguished from 'trigger.' Naming stresses separately changes the response logic: you do not 'respond' to a stress the way you respond to a trigger. Stresses require structural, long-term investment in general resilience; triggers require rapid, specific response.

The slow pressures that gradually weaken systems.