ABSTRACT

Many authors and research teams have noted serious indications and risks of an escalating multi-faceted global crisis in which various subsidiary crises – environmental, financial, economic, social, national-political, nationalist, cyber, epidemiological – will feed each other. The authors range from, for example, IT multi-millionaire James Martin (2007) and the former Dutch right-liberal party leader and Defence Minister Joris Voorhoeve (2011), through integral theorists like Ervin Laszlo (2010), the Stockholm Environment Institute and Paul Raskin et al. (2002), to critical theorists like Ulrich Beck (2009) and Nancy Fraser (2013).