by Michael Lerner | Aug 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dear New School Friends: Awareness of the global polycrisis is spreading everywhere now. Most often people tie the polycrisis to climate change. Fewer realize that the real challenge is the unpredictable interaction of all the global stressors—environmental, social,...
by Michael Lerner | Aug 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dear New School Friends: The great writer and naturalist Barry Lopez participated in a Commonweal retreat a few years before he died. That is where I came to know him. On May 31, Ben Ehrenreich, himself a great writer and naturalist, published this New York Times...
by Michael Lerner | Jul 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dear Friends: We live in an intensely dangerous period of time–for ourselves and for the world. The turbulence continues to accelerate. This is the polycrisis–the quickening interaction of environmental, social, technological and economic stressors–leading to...
by Michael Lerner | Jun 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dear Friends: This morning at 8 a.m., four of us from Commonweal went down to Agate Beach in Bolinas. We went to visit an extraordinary whale rib that had washed up with the tide. I estimate the rib is about twelve feet long and as thick as my thigh. Since it is only...
by Michael Lerner | Apr 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dear Friends: This essay, or working paper, is my latest effort to explore how we may live as best we can in the global polycrisis that we have entered. I use the terms global polycrisis and polycrisis throughout this working paper. But I hold no special brief for...
