The problem with any intertwingled set of problems / "wicked
problems" / the #polycrisis is that our usual approach to solving
problems -- analyzing scope and shape of the problem, dividing,
working down the list one item at a time -- doesn't really work. The
list is too long, too intertwingled, we don't understand enough how
one thing impacts all the others, and by the time we might if we
spent the time, the situation has changed too much to make the
analysis still useful....
Personally, while I don't believe there is a "root problem" -- they are impact each other -- in my view the most fundamental of all the related problems is information dissemination and curation, including fake news and informational manipulation. I cannot see how we can make any progress on anything if our information exchange channels are unreliable. And they are, today, and more so all the time:
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