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Updates from the Polycrisis

April 10, 2025

This week I wanted to share two brief updates.

First, I don’t regularly write journal articles but I did successfully navigate this labyrinth recently. The article, now published, explores different strategies to reduce suffering both during the polycrisis period and post-polycrisis period. I grappled with that briefly before in a reflection, but if you want a full exploration, check out the journal article here.

Read What Comes After the Polycrisis? at the Global Sustainability journal website (it’s open access).

Second, if you’d rather listen to me describe those findings, then watch this webinar I gave for Goucher College a few weeks back (now online). I walk through some of the different solutions that can help address the polycrisis and post-polycrisis period and also imagine what an ecocentric civilization of the future could look like, if we actually work toward that. Watch below:

Watch Erik explore the polycrisis and what ecocentric cultures of the far future might look like.

That’s it for this week! Thanks for reading.

Erik Assadourian

Erik Assadourian is a sustainability researcher and writer who was affiliated with the Worldwatch Institute from 2001 until 2017, when the institute went into hibernation. He has co-authored over a dozen books and directed and co-directed seven. His work is focused especially on the need for cultural change to move humanity beyond consumerism. Erik is the Director of the Gaian Way (gaianway.org), an ecospiritual philosophy, organization, and community.