Polycrisis? What polycrisis? – How we’re reacting to a world in turmoil

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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We are going through a polycrisis – with multiple catastrophes playing out at once. But despite fuel costs, war and climate change – many remain optimistic. Is this a sign of delusion or pragmatism? Hannah Fearn is joined by Ben Page, CEO of market research leaders Ipsos, to unpack the psychological impact of our current crises, and why some look on the brighter side. “Lots of inequalities have been exposed by the pandemic – you can’t move for crisis.” “People have a tendency towards optimism bias.” “If you’re a Western European, your mid-40s seem like the worst years of your life.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Hannah Fearn. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Lead producer: Jacob Jarvis. Music: Kenny Dickinson. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:24.6	Hi Ben.
1:25.6	Good morning, good afternoon.
1:27.1	I suppose you are best known to our listeners for turning up on our TVs on election nights,
1:32.1	sort of crunching the data that helps us to understand
1:34.8	why some constituencies swing from one party to another. But this piece of work that IPSOS has just done
1:41.1	is on a much bigger scale politically. What do you mean when you say
1:45.3	that we're entering something called the 20-20s and that the world is now facing
1:49.4	this polycrisis as you call it? The idea of the Polycrisis which has been popularised by Adam Two's but is actually much older is this idea that you don't just have one crisis but you have a series of them and there are effectively feedback loops going on.
2:05.3	So you've got the inflation cost of living crisis.
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