The slow forces behind this year’s fast crises

Systemic risk analysis allows us to fully comprehend the long-tail of all the crises peaking this year. But it also reveals how we can turn these exponential curves around, accelerating just as fast and as far in the opposite direction…

SoDy’s Founder and Director, Dr. Dan Hoyer and Ajay Gambhir, the Director of Systemic Risk Assessment at the Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment (ASRA), recently wrote a piece for Resilience.org, highlighting that the dramatic and disastrous events that are occurring more frequently than ever are actually just the “visible crest” of decades-long systemic risks and stresses.

“The problem is that, if we only react to the most dramatic and immediate events, we’ll never be able to address the deep roots and underlying system dynamics that produced them.”

And, they conclude, that the field of complexity science doesn’t just allow us to figure out what’s going wrong - it also reveals paths for hopeful, impactful and transformative responses that can steer us out of these global crises.

Read the full article over on Resilience.org.